The Netflix Legacy Challenge

Written By Crystal Leontis

CREDIT: flapjacksims @ Tumblr on October 29, 2017

What Is The Netflix Legacy Challenge?

Play through 10 generations in a legacy based challenge all themed on TV shows that were on Netflix in 2017 (when this challenge was written). Play through families like ‘How I Met Your Mother’, ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, and many more!

Rules

  • Can start on any lot but with the standard legacy amount of money (1800)

  • Don’t have to stay on the lot you start with

  • Mods are allowed 

  • Money cheats are not allowed

Generations

Generation 1: how I Met Your Mother

If Robin:

“Its one thing to want something, it’s another to be told you can’t have it”

  • Starts when Teen

  • Compulsory Traits: Hates Children, Dog Lover

  • Reach Level 5 Singing Skill before becoming a YA

  • Have 4 really close friends

  • Master Social Media Career

  • Have 3 Dogs

  • Complete Serial Romantic Aspiration

  • Never have kids of your own

  • When an Adult, either:

    • Adopt and be a single parent

    • Marry someone with one child (the heir)

If Lily:

“Yes, I’m lovable, pretty and wise, but is it enough?”

  • Starts when Teen

  • Compulsory Traits: Art Lover

  • Meet future husband/wife when a teen

  • Master Painting Skill

  • Do a civil service job until Adult

  • When Adult, Master Art Critic/Painting Career

  • Master Parenting Skill (Charisma if no Parenthood)

  • Complete Painting Aspiration

  • Be an Emo as a teenager

  • Have 3 Children

Generation 2: Malcolm in the Middle

“You want to know the best part about childhood? At some point, it stops.”

  • Starts when Child

  • Must have Genius trait

  • Must be the middle child

  • Must have an over-protective mother

  • Be a straight-A student all through life

  • Must complete the Whiz Kid Aspiration

  • Must complete the Nerd Brain Aspiration

  • Choose any career you want but be mindful of the future generations

  • Detest your siblings as kids but befriend them as teens/adults

  • ALWAYS DO YOUR HOMEWORK

Generation 3: Young & Hungry

“Charm and sexiness just keep oozing out of me!”

  • Starts when YA

  • Favorite parent dies when teen

  • Compulsory Traits: Foodie, Outgoing

  • Own a restaurant and visit it at least once per sim week

  • Have the restaurant be 5 stars by the time sim is an Elder

  • Master Cooking Skill

  • Master Gourmet Cooking Skill

  • Have an on and off boyfriend until you get married as Elders

  • Have at least 2 kids

Generation 4: Stranger Things

(Playing as Eleven)

“Promise?”

  • Starts when Child

  • Have four close friends as a child

  • Move in with a police officer until teen

  • Lose all contact with family until YA

  • Master Wellness Skill (For the powers)

  • Marry one of the four close friends

  • Have a near-death experience (Be eaten by a cowplant once? Be creative)

  • Complete Friend-Of-The-World aspiration

  • Adopt a child-in-need (really poor, criminal parents…)

Generation 5: Jane the Virgin

“Life is full of tough moments, you have to fight for what you want”

  • Starts when Young Adult

  • Compulsory Traits: Bookworm, Family Oriented

  • No Woohoo until marriage (Duh!)

  • Have a child without woohoo (Wishing Well, Abduction)

  • Master Writing Skill

  • Complete Writing Aspiration

  • Have a love triangle of some form

  • Live with your mother and grandmother

  • Have one more child (Two in total)

Generation 6: Girlboss

“There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.”

  • Must be YA

  • Must have 3 jobs before buying a retail lot (Never beyond Level 2)

  • Must only sell things bought/stolen from other places/stores

  • Must be Noncommital and Kleptomaniac

  • Must master Mischief Skill

  • Have 2-3 Kids

  • Must get married

Generation 7: Switched at Birth

If Bay:

“I want to be the person you raised me to be but I’m also the person I was born to be”

  • Starts when Baby/Teen

  • Get switched with a baby from a different household (of your choice)

  • Don’t find out until a teen

  • Reach level 5 Painting skill

  • Reach level 5 Guitar Skill

  • Complete Renaissance Sim aspiration

  • When he/she finds out about being switched, start to rebel (date, get a piercing etc)

  • Have two children

  • Child is taken by a cult leader

If Daphne:

“Never thought I’d be the kind of girl who’s caught up in some outsider label of who’s cool”

  • Starts when Baby/Teen

  • Get switched with a baby from a different household (of your choice)

  • Don’t find out until a teen

  • Compulsory Traits: Family Oriented

  • Have a negative trait that’ll make it harder to play as her

  • Move in with biological parents when teen

  • Master Fitness Skill

  • Complete Fitness Aspiration

  • Have two cats (Why not?)

  • Have three children

  • Child is taken by a cult leader

Generation 8: Unbreakable - Kimmy Schmidt

“If this is your idea of a joke, then you belong in a Woody Allen film because I’m not laughing.”

  • Compulsory Traits: Childish, Goofball

  • Starts when a Child

  • Live underground with 3 strangers until YA

  • When a YA, move to a dumpy apartment with a slobby roommate

  • Befriend a rich woman and your landlord

  • Have at least 5 jobs before becoming an Astronaut

  • Reach Level 10 in Rocket Science

  • Reach Level 10 in Logic

  • Go to Sixam

Generation 9: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

"Do you ever want to punch yourself in the face for liking someone a lot?”

  • Compulsory Traits: Lazy, Romantic

  • Complete the Detective Career

  • Master Mischief Skill

  • Kill your mother’s abducter (No one can see this happen)

  • Fall in love with your co-worker

  • Become best-friends with a co-worker

  • Have your best-friend nearly die or die

  • Have 5 kids

Generation 10: Victorious

“I am not your missing link”

  • Starts when a Teen

  • Compulsory Traits: Outgoing, Music Lover

  • Have all your siblings fall in love before you

  • Max Singing Skill before Adult

  • Max Piano Skill

  • Complete Entertainer-Musician Career

  • Have a taboo love

  • Have 2 kids (if you want to continue)

Optional Generations

Grey’s Anatomy

  • Can be a YA or Adult

  • Must finish Doctor Career

  • Must master Logic skill

  • Must master Charisma skill

  • Must have an on and off relationship with co-worker

  • Must live with two doctors

  • Must have a complicated relationship with mother

  • Parents must Divorce before teen

Gilmore Girls

  • Get pregnant as soon as YA

  • Must master Parenting Skill

  • Must complete Parenting Aspiration

  • Must run a breakfast restaurant (the inn)

  • Must master Grilled Cheese aspiration

  • Must frequent a cafe

Riverdale

Begins when a teenager (all of them)

If Betty Cooper:

“Something is seriously wrong with me”

  • Compulsory Traits: Geek and Hot Headed (Dark Betty)

  • Upon turning teen, must have a poor relationship with mother

  • Complete Critic career (Choose any career if you dont have City Living)

  • Must reach at least level 5 writing while teen

  • Has two kids

If Archie Andrews:

“I was born alone. I’ll die alone. I’ll sing alone. I’ll be okay.”

  • Complete Fitness Aspiration

  • Parents must Divorce/Separate

  • Live with Dad and have a poor relationship with mother

  • Master Singing Skill (Can only start this skill when done with Fitness)

  • Adopt one child

If Jughead Jones:

“Sardonic humor is just my way of relating to the world.”

  • Father must be a criminal

  • Must have Loner trait

  • Must be in a club with father’s friends and don’t get along with them (SSS)

  • Write a masterpiece (About Jason Blossom)

  • Either Complete Criminal or Writer career (KEEP IN MIND JANE THE VIRGIN GEN REQUIRES MAX WRITING)

  • Have 4 Kids

If Veronica Lodge:

“Maybe I’m that reckoning”

  • Parents lose half their money upon this gen starting

  • Parents seperate until this sim is a YA

  • Must live in a different neighborhood to first gen

  • Master Logic Skill

  • Complete Business career

Crystal Leontis
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