Great question! I made a list of possible good and bad things that could happen to sims and then assigned them all number all into a table in an excel file that looks like this:

Each sim upon aging into Young Adult, Adult or Elder rolls between 1-55 for one of these. So that’s a total of at least 3 per lifetime, unless the death card is rolled of course. Additionally if I’m bored with a household or not sure where to take the story next I might roll for the household and then apply that card to a sim of my choosing.

Some examples of this we’ve seen in the stories:

Victor rolled an affair card to have Aron with Dina

Catarina Lynx has rolled both the loose job and gain money cards.

Jaques Villareal and Brent Hecking both rolled for alien pregnancy

Sergio Romeo rolled for a new career and switched from tech guru to secret agent

75% of the animals in the town were from adopt a pet chance card(I gave some houses some pets just because I wanted to as well haha)

Mitchell Kalani and Brant Hecking both rolled for the adopt a child card(this is important for later 😉 )

I could go on and on! I also have a lot more rules and rolls for other life stages as well and would be happy to share the excel file or pdf version to anyone that would like to see it. Just let me know here or on discord(funfetti#0427)!

Ah ha whelp being super organized and very meticulous note taking are your friends in this kind of endeavor! 

A detailed explanation of my system under the cut cause I cant do anything simply.

Starting off each household is assigned a number, they are always this number and it is also the play order in rotation. So Spencer-Kim-Lewis household is #1 and that keeps going all the way to the Lynx household that is #29.

In addition to that each and every sim has been separated by generation and gender. So I have a table for Generation 1 female, Generation 1 male etc…

In each of these separate tabs I keep track of the following items for each and every sim(not counting pets):

• Household Born in
• Household lived in as an adult
• Heir (Y/N)
• First Name
• Maiden Name
• Last Name
• Sexual Orientation
• Traits
• Bad trait modifier(if they roll three “good” traits I roll a bad trait for them that comes to play in their story somehow)
• Grade as a Child
• Grade as a Teen
• Relationship Type (single, boyfriend/girlfriend, married @ YA or Married @ A)
• Partner’s Name
• Career path and branch
• # of pregnancies/adoptions(for women and/or Gay sims)
• Children’s names
• Skills maxed
• YA Chance Card (story elements rolled at each adult stage)
• A Chance Card 

  (story elements rolled at each adult stage)

• E Chance Card 

  (story elements rolled at each adult stage) 

Lastly I also keep track of each household and its members on my blog with links to each household’s story from the beginning which I check and reread prior to playing the household just to make sure I’m not forgetting anything.

So yeah that’s my crazy system in a nutshell and probably more that you wanted to know, but hey that’s how I roll, so let me know if you have any questions!