When I got a hunt sighting, it unlocked Hunter. And once I had Hunter, I saw hunts were available as a vampire.

I don't got a real good response though to the question. Except, perhaps, make a character that's Sadistic. You can execute/diablerize/torture for easy tress relief. It's one of the strongest traits in the game due to that. Otherwise, create-a-ruler and make sure you pick up the stress relief trio... or get lucky and get one of them when you have a stress break.

Thanks - this aspect of the game seems a bit RNG-type I must admit. I started a new game once my character got overwhelmed and her minions started revolting early on; on the second run (same character) it seems far better for some reason. Basically, if you don't have ways to deal with stress... just avoid doing stressful stuff at all cost.

Elysiums are the vampire "feasts". Survey capital are the vampires "hunts" Both are available to all vampires.. You have as many tools to reduce stress as in vanilla, though they tend to be costlier or rarer, but you have the advantage of immortality, hence being able to take it slow.

Thanks for the clarification - I'll have to try Elysium, makes sense. I've done capital surveys a number of times, didn't seem to do anything to stress... I may have just been unlucky of course.

This is only if creating a character but athletic is by far imo the best stress relief. Once a year your workout and loss stress. You lose I think a little opinion but for vampires a year goes by so fast that barely has any impact and that goes double for cool downs. Personality traits also play a pretty big role as well. Calm is usually great to just say no or go with flow with lot of events. Being Lustful is not bad since most religions don't care about cheating and never get in trouble or disease if you a vampire.

Sadistic is quite strong in that regard but there are other options. Lustful characters regenerate stress when they successfully seduce someone. You could play a gererous character and hand out gifts to people. All traits are double edged swords though. If you are super nice to people as a totally sadistic edgelord you get stress. If you break up with a lover and thus deprive yourself of fun you get stress as a horny character.
Rivals can also be useful for stress relief. If you hurt your rivals, revoke their titles, beat them at boatgames and duels etc. and especially when they get killed you get stress relief.
Also, get a dog via animalism. You can pet teh dog once in a while as a decision and get stress relief that way.
In the same vein, hire a good fool. That is a court position.