Welcome to my Sims blog, where you’ll be able to find the latest news on my Sims blogs, the odd random story or challenge, links to some of my favourite sites, and my thoughts on particular aspects of the game.
Although I’ll continue to update my legacies and stories on their own blogs, check here for the news on the latest updates, as well as lots of other Sims-related content.
For new readers, I have six sim stories (with one more in the planning stages) and they all stand-alone (although sometimes you might get the odd cameo!).
The Kyoti Legacy – A completed ten-generation story using Pinstar’s Legacy Challenge Rules.
The Lazarus Dispatches – An completed apocalypse challenge using rules by Ashleigh.
Dayes of Our Lives – A bit of fun with me and my sims attempting my ‘try everything’ rules for a new kind of legacy. Not so much a story as an experiment.
Operation: Population - A Who’s Your Daddy Challenge, using Stircraxy’s rules
Rainbow Knights – A 10 generation, 10 chapter super-speedy uglacy
Taken – an epic, multi-character story
I also have a Twitter account for my Sims bloggage: http://www.twitter.com/radsims – and if you are interested in random waffle about British TV and suchlike, you could also follow my ‘real’ one: http://www.twitter.com/RadShef. I’m also on Facebook with both a page and a profile…
Rad x
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December 8, 2009 at 1:06 am
S.B
Hi there….I know this is going to sound stupid, but since I’m completely unfamiliar with TS3, and I really want to read your work and start at the beginning, could you advise me where I should start? Again, I know that’s a dumb question.
Thank you!!
December 8, 2009 at 8:54 am
Rad
It’s not a dumb question!
Under ‘stories’ are my two VSS challenge of the month stories, they’re very short and stand alone.
Then there are three longer challenge-based stories (filed under ‘legacies’) and for those go to whichever you are most interested in – they’re all easy to navigate and have their own blogs.
The Kyoti Legacy was my Sims3 Legacy and is 70-odd chapters but they’re all small and the story/challenge is completed. It’s the first time I ever played a legacy or blogged a sims story so the photography etc gets better as it goes along…
The Lazarus Dispatches is in a very different style from the Kyotis, and it’s a story playing through the apocalypse challenge as adapted for TS3. I update 1-2 times a week, and am not yet at the end of the challenge.
Dayes of Our Lives isn’t much of a story as such; it’s a twist on the legacy to try all the crazy bits of Sims 3 most people avoid in a normal legacy challenge – it’s essentially me experimenting and having a laugh with my sims, so I hope it’s quite good fun, but it has no plot particularly. It’s a good place to learn about TS3 if you want to know more about it and its first EP. This one will be running throughout the EPs, probably.
January 13, 2010 at 3:50 am
Spark
You have a great site here! I love how you have info on all of your own stories, in addition to talking about your favorites written and created by others.
I just wanted to let you know that I added you to my own link list at:
http://sparkstories.wordpress.com/
Anyway, keep up the good work! Now, back to browsing your site… =)
May 3, 2010 at 7:13 pm
themoorelegacychallenge
I love your site!!! Thanks for putting the Moores’ up there!
July 25, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Leigh
I have read all of your stories and love them! I try to keep up to date and read them often. I have never used any mods with my Sims games and I was wondering if you use any and which ones. I would like to try some of them, but I’m not sure what is best. Thanks!
July 25, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Rad
I only use Twallan’s super computer at the moment, which is brilliant.
November 29, 2010 at 10:24 pm
jewellegacy
Hi there! Silly question- is there a way to get added to this collection? Thank you!
November 30, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Rad
I’m confused? You want me to link to your legacy or do you mean something else?
November 30, 2010 at 9:05 pm
jewellegacy
Link the legacy, if that’s alright.
November 30, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Rad
Tis already done
December 2, 2010 at 1:52 am
jewellegacy
Thank you so much.
October 18, 2011 at 7:19 am
y4zz4
Love your legacies!! You seem like a true sim guru!! Please link my legacy, I’ve only started…somehow at gen 2..http://edgewingtonlegacy.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/hello-world/
November 16, 2011 at 1:50 am
peppersims
I loved your Kyoti Legacy, it has inspired me to do a story legacy as well, and I will be reading your Apocalypse one soon (: , I just have a question, I don’t really know how to show people my Legacy, I am just starting one, so i just wanted to know, so when i do get a chapter up, people will see it.
November 16, 2011 at 10:14 am
Rad
Set up a blog (I like WordPress) and then get involved in one of the online Sims communities and promote your story there. I’d recommend Boolprop, but I know a lot of people still use the official EA forums, and then there are others, such as Simpletons and Crazy Town which may suit you. Read and comment on lots of people’s work – readers make good writers and vice versa, and it will help you feel part of the legacy community.
November 17, 2011 at 9:24 pm
peppersims
Thank you, that’s really helpful, I have started a blog on WordPress, but would really rather wait until I figure out how to work everything, because I am still struggling to figure out how to do pretty much everything, and when I get my first chapter set up, I will start to promote (: , one more question if you don’t mind, but what did you use to edit your header pictures? I have no clue what I should use.
November 18, 2011 at 12:23 am
Rad
Most WordPress templates will do it themselves in terms of cropping an existing image to size, otherwise either GIMP or Photobucket do the job fine and are useful for adding text etc.
November 18, 2011 at 1:42 am
peppersims
Thanks a lot
November 27, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Dance Hall Sim
I just found this and feel like I have a ton of catching up to do once everything at school settles down for me! I don’t even know where to start. Haha.
I was wondering if you knew of a place that all the wordpress legacy writers can gather and talk? I feel like we don’t have a real set community, and if we do, I’d love to find it and get into it. The best I feel like I can do is search tags on wordpress and just keep clicking blogrolls on all the legacies I like.
If there’s not a place for us all to gather and chat, maybe it should be started, even if it’s just an invisionfree forum of some sort. I feel like we’re all spread out between the official Sims 3 site, Mod the Sims, and other various sites, and I’d love for there to be one place for all of us.
This is longer than I intended. And I only have 9 minutes left of my break, so I better get onto finishing my snack. Haha. Did I make any sense?
Happy simming!
- Jillian
November 27, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Rad
Most of us are on Boolprop, I think. Or Facebook. Or both.
November 27, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Dance Hall Sim
After I posted I went back and read some comments and saw you mention boolprop. I just joined and am looking forward to really immersing myself into the community properly. =]