A Vampire-specific suggestion - hunting and feeding will lose its novelty in time. VTM5 introduces complications like Resonances to keep specific hunts interesting, like VTR2 has details like Protean needing you to kill an animal to take its form.
My best trick for keeping vampires’ need for blood in focus even if it isn’t played out in detail is to remind myself to have the SPC vampires address it too. It’s very easy to handwave that, and well-established Kindred will have Herds and other reliable methods so they don’t need to hunt in the streets, but I try to avoid making it feel like the PCs are the only vampires who need to worry about this.
I include the occasional reminder in another scene, like a contact arriving late with a little blood on her lips, seeing another vampire pursuing someone in a Rack club, and even some plot hooks like a recent example of a Gangrel poaching on another’s domain at the city zoo for the blood resonance of large predators.
L.A. By Night has the coterie’s first meeting with the Nosferatu elder Gary being a dinner party with live rats as the main course, to the dismay of the Ventrue and Toreador members.
The forthcoming VTM computer game Swansong looks like it will have control of the blood supply as a major plot strand, with the Prince of Boston looking to consolidate and possibly monopolise it throughout the area.
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