6 Degrees of Separation

Hi there simmers!!


I wanted to start a challenge that had the liberty the Legacy Challenge gives you in terms of story -because although there are rules, you can just make your own story and not worry about keeping up with a certain theme. However, I never seem to finish my Legacy Challenge so I wanted something different but similar at the same time.

Well, I have found just the right challenge: 6 Degrees of Separation by buckeygirl80.

Hopefully this one I can finish!

Here are the rules and requirements.


This is really not a rule based challenge. The challenge only lies in the creativity of the one telling the story, and deciding who should be the main character for the upcoming "degree" instead of a generation. Maybe a better word would be 'series' instead of challenge.

It works like this:

1. Choose a founder. It can be anyone, premade, or your own sim. They kick off the 6 degree story.

2. You tell a story with them, just as you would a legacy, but there is no rules as to what that founder "has" to do. They don't have to have kids. They don't have to get married. They don't have to complete a LTW. It's really all about a story with their life. It can contain as many chapters as you want. It can be a child, teen, adult. As long as it's ONE sim that is the main character of the story.

3. When you are finished with their story, you move on to the 2nd degree. Someone that is connected to your founder in some way. Maybe it's their best friend. Maybe a random acquaintance. Maybe a neighbor. It can be anyone, as long as they have made some sort of appearance in the story line of your founder. Shoot, it could even be the pizza guy! But he/she has to have been mentioned in the story somewhere before. Not just in a picture. But it only has to be a brief mention.

4. You start a new story with them. Of course, you can pull in elements and story bits from your founder's story, as a way to round out what happened previously, or you can totally go off on a whole new tangent, and leave all the previous characters behind.

5. Somehow, in the current "degree" you are writing in, you must reference the previous main character at least once. So, in the 2nd degree story, somewhere you would mention or include the founder.

As far as requirements, this is all there is. A mention of previous degree, a mention of future degree in each "degree" or story.

It keeps on going this way, 3rd degree, 4th, 5th, and then finally 6th. On the 6th degree sim, you could find a clever way to tie them into the founder's life or not, that's up to you.

Only ONE time in the challenge are you allowed to use a child of one of the main characters as a next degree. The whole idea is that it is different from a legacy.

There is a lot of freedom here as a story writer. You can really take the story anywhere you want, with any of the characters you want. I know we all have fallen in love with 'side' characters in our own and other people's legacies, and this is a way for them to be more than just a side story! Your 6 Degree Series could be one story, told from 6 different points of view, or 6 completely different stories, only connected by the 6 degrees. It's all up to you!

You could even collaborate with some of your sim-writing friends, and let them take a degree from your series and write it for you. Or you could swap degrees with someone if you get bored, and let them write one of your stories, and you write theirs. Then, when you return as the writer for the next degree, hopefully it would be fresh and new, because someone else wrote the previous story line, and you can use pieces of their story to spark creativity in your own.

To read the whole thing click here

Sounds interesting? Okay, you stay there brooding the idea, meanwhile, I got some sims to make ^^

Look forward to my 6 Degrees of Separation Challenge. :)