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For questions about The Strange, a role-playing game by Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell where characters travel to "recursions", mini-realities where the laws of physics can be very different.

For questions about The Strange, a role-playing game by Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell where characters travel to "recursions", mini-realities where the laws of physics can be very different.

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Is it possible to translate in-place after inapposite travel?

When a creature travels via inapposite means (inapposite gate, harness, directly from the strange, etc), will end up out of context when the laws of the destination recursion differ, and will begin weakening (and possibly dying). If this happens to…
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What happens if a character uses an inapposite gate to get to Earth, but later, translates to Earth?

I hate 2-part questions, but they are directly related. In our game, we have an Earthborn human, who was sent via inapposite gate to Ruk, had major surgery done (vat-growth limb to replace one lost a few years back), and, after some recovery time…
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What happens when someone leaves a Recursion?

When you do the translation into a Recursion, as far as I understand, you turn yourself into "another person" (same memory, different foci), but for people in the world (even those with Spark and Quickened), you're someone who has "always existed"…
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What happens if a translated/translating character is pregnant?

A. If a character is pregnant in her homeworld, and then translates as a different species...: ... is she still pregnant in the recursion? ...and spends enough time in the recursion for birth, is the child born in the recursion? Is the child of the…
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Focus changes when returning to home world

If I return to homeworld after having found a draggable focus, do I get the chance to keep the draggable focus? Or is it a recursion change-specific feature?
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What is the exact benefit and usage of "Spin Identity"?

In the strange, Spin identity is a twist a spinner can use to convince intelligent creatures that you are someone else. Its a relatively expensive use of your intellect pool. Disguises can be an asset to the relevant roll. How is using this…
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What happens if you enter a Recursion via the Strange?

I understand that, if you just cross a gate from a Recursion to another (or from / to a Primary World like Earth) you can do this normally via an inapposite gate, but you risk dying if the laws are incompatible (like going from earth to Ruk). But,…
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