I get brilliant, vibrant worlds withots of things happening and the consistent characters with Deepseek V3 (and R1 summaries every so often).
From time to time I get the event so great and character so compelling, I save the best in Author Note or Lorebook.
The overall atmosphere is effortlessly somewhat Skyrim/Game of Thrones/World of Darkness adjacent.
I'd look for these two models to build this simulator of yours, ie R1 to plan and V3 to fill in the blanks. Oh, or maybe Google Gemini 2.5 or 2.0 to plan the story and DeepSeek V3 to fill in.
Hey, I am sorry but no, I don't publish anything, but if you have any experience with Silly Tavern, I use Cherrybox preset (works fantastic with NSFW toggle off) and DeepSeek mostly. If you don't, this is where you start.
Other than that I don't do anything special compared to what other people share on aicg or reddit, etc. Just best practices :) (summaries, good OOC, temperature/top k/top p depending on the model).
Hmmm, maybe spending a lot of time on building interesting, deep, rich persona with deep links to the world (scenario card). 100-300 tokens. There are cards helping in building persona ("Persona Builder" from chub works great). Make it succinct.
I've found myself giggle for hours from the shenanigans of NPCs with my sidekick or just save in the journal best fragments of the gorgeous mental pictures it painted with words.
So at the end the name of the card that works best for me so far: it's called "Loraheim" (also on chub) but from my limited experience good model (DeepSeek V3/R1) + good preset + good persona + passable character will make a great adventure (I've just started a dramatic space opera from the fairly boring "you wake up in the alien dome/zoo").
From time to time I get the event so great and character so compelling, I save the best in Author Note or Lorebook.
The overall atmosphere is effortlessly somewhat Skyrim/Game of Thrones/World of Darkness adjacent.
I'd look for these two models to build this simulator of yours, ie R1 to plan and V3 to fill in the blanks. Oh, or maybe Google Gemini 2.5 or 2.0 to plan the story and DeepSeek V3 to fill in.