With the recent Opus 5.5 release, my RP workflow has went through serious change.

Let me clarify the flaws first, Opus 5.5 is *not* a great model for NSFW and with the recent obsession of 'safety' and stuff, we should just assume pretty much all the labs are going for that. Consensual sex is still fine though.

That being said, for general RP, other than NSFW, and IMO, Opus 5.5 is an amazing model. It has great spatial awareness, great *knowledge* of of most popular pop culture media. And in general it *knows* how to make the story and the *world* itself come alive, much less slop, knows how to pace a story. It feels like an upgraded Opus 4.6 in every way possible other than NSFW.

That brings me to the point of this post. I have started using dual models for RP, I have never used that before, I usually just use one and continue through it. But I have realised that the NSFW situation isnt gonna get any better. So I have been using Opus 5.5 for general RP and when it comes to NSFW scene, I just swap with Deepseek R1 or GLM 4.6, scene ends, back to Opus 5.5

This does two things, removes the headache to think if my current frontier model can do NSFW or not even though they are a great storyteller. And also saves money using much cheaper models. Yes, It'll take more manual model changing and preset but oh well, we don't have much choice do we. Alternatively, we can use something like Jev to see if we get a refusal or its going to NSFW territory to auto change the model but I am not sure how well that's gonna work.

That's my take on my current RP situation anyway and honestly? It makes way more sense to me now to have a specialist model for different situation.

So yeah, been loving Opus 5.5 + GLM 4.6 especially. What do you guys think?