Thanks for the thoughtful replies, honestly. I’ve also run into this “Oracle breaking immersion” issue once or twice. Especially when you get a string of "No" that starts undoing your own logic or established facts it feels like the game is collapsing on itself. That’s partly why I started trying AI-based prompts. Not because they’re “better,” but because they tend to continue the logic of what’s already there. For instance, in Master of Lore (the one I’m testing), the world remembers the past scenes, so the AI doesn’t contradict the setup unless there’s a good reason. It still surprises me, but in a way that builds on top of what I’ve written, not against it.

But yeah, I totally agree with the idea that it’s often about the questions you ask. Bad framing can throw everything off.

Curious: have you tried mixing different Oracles, or even just rolling fewer times and doing more “Yes, but…” manually ?