A premium connection-profile rotation extension for SillyTavern by Hyperion.
Roulette rotates between SillyTavern connection profiles during a chat — sequentially or by weighted random — so you can mix models, parameters, and providers without manually switching. A slim pinned bar in the chat shows the rotation as a line of colored dots — one per slot, with the live slot lit up and counting down — so you always know what's talking and what's next.
The longer your chat runs, the more value Roulette adds. Four reasons most users install it:
| Reason | What it solves | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Beat prose fatigue | Long single-model chats develop visible patterns — same rhythms, same body-language tics. Even one alternate model in the rotation breaks the spell. | Long-running characters, multi-thousand-message arcs. |
| Pace your spend | Schedule a flagship model 1-in-5 alongside a cheap workhorse. Most turns cost pennies; the premium model lands occasionally for variety. | Anyone juggling API budgets. |
| Mitigate refusals | Different models have different rails. When one balks, the next switch hands the keyboard to a model with different boundaries. | Mature scenes, edge cases, anyone tired of re-rolling. |
| Discover models honestly | Drop a candidate into the rotation and let it co-exist with your favourites for a few sessions. Real side-by-side, in your real chat. | Evaluating new providers without rebuilding your setup. |
In SillyTavern: Extensions → Install Extension → Install from URL and paste:
https://github.com/hype-hosting/SillyTavern-Roulette
Manual install: clone into data/<user>/extensions/SillyTavern-Roulette/ (per-user) or public/scripts/extensions/third-party/SillyTavern-Roulette/ (global), then enable in the Extensions panel.
Requires at least two connection profiles defined in SillyTavern's Connection Profiles extension.
A 3-model rotation in five steps. Assumes Roulette is installed.
- Define three connection profiles in SillyTavern's Connection Profiles UI. Pick three different models you want in the mix — e.g.
Sonnet 4.5,GLM-4.7,DeepSeek v3. Give them clear names; you'll pick from these names in step 3. - Open Roulette — click the gear on the Roulette bar above the message input, or Settings in the Extensions drawer.
- Queues tab → New queue. Name it (e.g. Long-fiction blend). Pick Sequential mode, add your three profiles, set each slot's count (try
Sonnet=3,GLM=2,DeepSeek=4). - Save. The queue appears as a card with a dot-strip preview. Click Simulate 20 picks in the editor first if you want to sanity-check the sequence.
- Press ▶ on the bar. The dots light up, and from now on each AI response advances the rotation automatically.
The bar shows the whole rotation at a glance: one dot per slot in queue order, the active slot lit with the number of responses it has left, plus Skip and Stop. If you'd rather not see it, Disable Roulette in the Extensions drawer hides it without stopping anything.
Four queue configurations that map to common roleplayer goals. Drop into the editor, save, run.
Three frontier models in sequence, biased toward your favourite. Prevents prose fatigue across long arcs.
| Slot | Profile | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your favourite (e.g. Sonnet) | 3 |
| 2 | Alternate voice (e.g. GLM or Gemini) | 2 |
| 3 | Tertiary (e.g. DeepSeek) | 4 |
Mode: Sequential · ~9 turns per cycle.
Cheap model handles 80% of turns; flagship steps in occasionally for variety.
| Slot | Profile | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheap workhorse (free-tier OpenRouter, local Llama, etc.) | 4 |
| 2 | Flagship treat (Sonnet, Gemini Pro, GPT-5) | 1 |
Mode: Weighted-random · run length range 1–3 · no-repeat off.
A character with two distinct internal voices. Each turn alternates — same character, two minds.
| Slot | Profile | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Voice A" (warm, verbose) | 1 |
| 2 | "Voice B" (cold, terse) | 1 |
Mode: Sequential with count 1 each. Or Weighted-random with no-repeat-in-row enabled and equal weights for non-rigid alternation.
Most turns are predictable; occasionally something unexpected happens. Genuine narrative randomness.
| Slot | Profile | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reliable narrator | 5 |
| 2 | Reliable narrator (alt) | 3 |
| 3 | Wildcard (a model known to surprise you) | 1 |
Mode: Weighted-random · run length range 1–2.
Different characters want different rotations. A hard-boiled detective and a whimsical fae shopkeeper rarely benefit from the same blend of models.
Bind a queue to a character once and it starts itself from then on:
- In the modal — open Rotation while that character's chat is loaded and pick a queue from Auto-start for character.
- From a queue — in Queues, click the characters icon on a queue card and tick every character that should use it.
- From chat —
/roulette-bind Long-fiction blend.
Opening one of that character's chats then starts the queue and switches the connection profile before the first generation. Three rules keep it out of your way:
| Situation | What happens |
|---|---|
| Chat already has a rotation running | Left completely alone — the running rotation always wins |
| You stopped rotation in that chat | Stays stopped, even after reopening it |
| Group chat | Bindings don't apply; a group has several members and no obvious winner |
A character can have one queue; a queue can serve any number of characters. Renaming or deleting a character updates or removes its binding automatically.
| Mode | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Sequential | Walks slots in order, looping back to the start. Each slot runs for either a fixed count or a range (rolled when the slot becomes active). |
| Weighted-random | Picks a slot by weighted random selection on each rotation boundary. Run length is fixed or rolled from a range. Optional don't repeat the same profile twice in a row toggle forces variety. |
Per-chat state — every chat tracks its own rotation independently. Switch chats, and each one keeps its own active queue, slot, and counter.
Manual override — if you switch profiles via SillyTavern's normal selector mid-rotation, Roulette pauses with a Resume affordance until you decide to continue.
Profile-deletion error path — if a slot's profile is deleted, Roulette skips it. Three consecutive failed slots halts the rotation with a toast.
| Tab | What it is |
|---|---|
| Rotation | The live dot strip — one dot per slot, active slot glowing with its responses-remaining count — plus Start / Skip / Stop / Resume, an Auto-start for character picker, and the pick history: a trail strip of recent picks and a full newest-first log of which profile wrote which message. |
| Queues | Card grid of saved queues, each with a dot-strip preview. Click to edit (drag-to-reorder slots, simulate 20 picks live). The characters icon opens a picker — bind many characters to one queue at once. Import / export as JSON for sharing. |
| Settings | Pinned bar visibility + position (above the message bar, below it, or above the chat), animation speed slider (0.25× to 2×), accent-colour picker, profile-palette display. |
| Command | Effect |
|---|---|
/roulette-start <queueName> |
Activate a queue on the current chat |
/roulette-stop |
Deactivate rotation |
/roulette-status |
Print current state |
/roulette-skip |
Force-advance to the next slot |
/roulette-bind <queueName> |
Auto-start that queue whenever the current character is loaded |
/roulette-unbind |
Remove the current character's binding |
| Version | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| v2.0.1 | Current | Post-release polish — cleaner resume after manual overrides, single error toasts, editor prefill fixes, and self-healing cleanup of sampler-tuning presets when queues are renamed. |
| v2.0 | Full UI redesign — the revolver cylinder, floating widget, and chat-input pill are replaced by a linear dot strip and a slim pinned bar (position configurable). Cool near-black theme, denser modal, three tabs. | |
| v1.3 | Per-character queue bindings — open a character's chat, their queue starts itself. | |
| v1.2 | Inline sampler tuning per slot, overlaid through SillyTavern's preset system. | |
| v1.1 | Floating draggable widget mirroring the cylinder during chat; glassmorphism pass. | |
| v1.0 | Initial public release. Modal redesign, glassy cylinder, drag-to-reorder, simulate-20-picks, queue export/import, history view, animation/accent settings. |
Roulette is one piece of a larger ecosystem. If you want to experience what these tools can really do when paired with handcrafted characters, deep worldbuilding, and a curated community, check out:
Timeless Tavern — a SillyTavern instance hosted by me, Hyperion. Multi-user, multi-world, and running on a prompt architecture that goes well beyond what's published here. Access is through the Discord.
HYPERCODE — my premium roleplay system prompt framework. Drop-in replacement for whatever you're running now; pairs naturally with Roulette. GitHub →
- Discord — Hype Discord — Community, support, and access to Timeless Tavern.
- Ko-fi — ko-fi.com/hype — Support the work. Memberships and commissions available.
- The Hyperium — Substack — Writing, worldbuilding, and studio updates.
- Tumblr — @hyperionblackthorne — AI art and dark aesthetic.
Roulette is released under AGPL-3.0 — the same license as SillyTavern. You're free to use, share, and adapt it; derivative works distributed publicly must remain open under the same terms. See the license file for full terms.
Found a bug? Have a recipe that should be in the README? Open an issue or submit a PR. Community contributions that improve the framework — especially additional recipes for common rotation patterns — are welcome.
If you build something cool with Roulette, I'd love to hear about it. Drop into the Discord and share.
Crafted by Hyperion