u/GreyFoxJ

Hi everyone.

I’m a pretty avid roleplayer, and ever since I discovered SillyTavern and NanoGPT (thank you Milan, I mean it) I’ve been having an absolute blast creating “What If” scenarios in my favorite settings and worlds.

So far, I’ve had a really good experience with GLM 5.0. GLM 5.1 didn’t really impress me, honestly, I can barely notice any meaningful difference between 5 and 5.1. After setting it up properly, though, GLM 5.0 has been giving me results I’m generally quite happy with, with the usual highs and lows. Sometimes the characters feel exactly like themselves, almost perfectly on point. Other times, you need to give the model that one extra narrative instruction to get things back on track.

Either way, I’m not really complaining about the results I’ve been getting.

What I wanted to ask more experienced users about is this: group chats.

Yes, you read that right.

I know models don’t usually handle them very well, so things can get messy and you often need to give them some time to “warm up.” That said, GLM 5.0 actually handles up to two character cards plus the user surprisingly well. Honestly, sometimes it works miracles.

But… I want more :(

I’d love to roleplay with 4–5 character cards at the same time, plus the user. So I was wondering if any of you know any tricks, prompts, extensions, workflows, or general setup advice to improve the experience.

I fully understand that after a while the model is naturally going to get confused. That’s probably just physiological at some point. But if you have any technical tricks, I’m not scared of those either.

In real life I’m a Web Developer (still fairly junior) and I’ve had fun digging through SillyTavern’s settings and experimenting with them. But when I roleplay, I don’t really want to lose my mind constantly tweaking extensions, models, prompts, and settings.

I want to switch my brain off, immerse myself in the worlds I love, play my characters, and have them interact with the settings and characters I’m a fan of.

So, do you have any solutions for this problem that keeps haunting me?

I can live without larger group chats, or rather, I can live with group chats limited to two characters plus the user... but if you have any tricks to make the experience less sloppy, or any advice that could point me toward alternative paths, even just for thinking about or designing a possible solution, I’d be very grateful.

I mean, nowadays with vibe coding you can get a rough gem, then slowly do some healthy polishing.

Thanks in advance.

Signed, an avid roleplayer who loves AI, SillyTavern, and RP.