I sat down to crunch a few numbers one day about feeding. According to the books, a vampire uses one blood point each day to wake. You can take 3 blood points from a mortal without endangering their lives. This seems like a fact that vampires would have quickly figured out and passed down from sire to childer over the ages. So we arrive at least 10 feedings a month. More if the vampire is using blood to power disciplines, heal injuries, impersonate mortals, etc. Less if you murder, obviously.
Apply the same philosophy to the Herd rules, and you see each dot of Herd can be added to each feeding. This means that if you have a herd of 5, you can get away with feeding only 4 times a month instead of 10. This assumes each feeding attempt is successful. Domain reduces the difficulty of the feeding check, meaning you actually successfully get those 10 feedings per month more easily: you're not making 12-20 tries. The idea here, is that feeding bonuses ultimately free up a vampire's time for more important things. With that in mind, here's what I'm thinking of for feeding rules.
Apply the same philosophy to the Herd rules, and you see each dot of Herd can be added to each feeding. This means that if you have a herd of 5, you can get away with feeding only 4 times a month instead of 10. This assumes each feeding attempt is successful. Domain reduces the difficulty of the feeding check, meaning you actually successfully get those 10 feedings per month more easily: you're not making 12-20 tries. The idea here, is that feeding bonuses ultimately free up a vampire's time for more important things. With that in mind, here's what I'm thinking of for feeding rules.
