OMG I agree so hard on this. Urban Shadows is wonderful, but we play two hour sessions with 5 guys, of which 3 show up about once a month each. It’s hard to NOT end a 2 hour session on a cliff hanger and then 2 people don’t show up next week.
Edit: last session we ended with a firefight as one vamp tried to wrest control from 12 other family heads. The Fae was in the middle of it. Other folks on the outside. Fae can’t make it tonight so what the hell?