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To everyone who rolled dice in my early playtests, survived my half-broken mechanics, and helped breathe life into Death Mesa — I couldn’t have done it without you.
Special thanks to the promoters and crews at:
You gave me stages, tables, and time to test this beast, and I’m endlessly grateful.
To all my friends — inside and outside my little gaming circle — who endured overly complicated character-creation sessions, experimental rule sets, and narrative disasters: you’re the real MVPs. Thanks for sticking around when the math got ugly and the ideas got vague.
To the degenerates, geeks, and freaks who make Brooklyn and Tucson endlessly fascinating — and occasionally a little terrifying — you are the soul of this world.
And finally, to the storytellers and artists who lit the fuse:
Quentin Tarantino, Hunter S. Thompson, Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky, Nicolas Winding Refn, Neal Stephenson, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Lora Zombie, Ralph Steadman, Gary Gygax — and countless others.
I’m stealing your best ideas because I know you stole all of yours.