THE JERRY STEFEK MEMORIAL CRAWL FOR THE CURE: ETHERMEET 2025 UPDATE!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2025, ACS, American Cancer Society, Artwork, Crawl for the Cure, Ethermeet, Judges, Prize, RPG, Smite Cancer

Another update for the incredible events we have lined up for you for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2025 on December 13th on Twitch.tv channel dcc_mayhem! Come join the incredibly fun RPG sessions and provide donations to the American Cancer Society to make the runs weird and wild for ultimate entertainment from 7 AM Saturday until Sunday, 2 AM CST! 

The incredible schedule we have lined up for you to SMITE cancer to its very core:
(All times in Central Standard Time!)

Time Judge / Game System / Adventure
7:00:00 AM CK Chuck Cumbow – Castles & Crusades – The Dark Crypt of Nagízotl
10:00:00 AM Judge Brendan Lasalle – Xcrawl Classics – The 36 Chambers of Xcrawl
2:00:00 PM Judge Tim Deschene – DCC/MCC MASHUP – Powerman and Defenders of the Cosmos
5:00:00 PM Judge Edwin Nagy – Dungeon Survivor – The Sweetest Curse
8:00:00 PM Judge Luau Lou/Insanti Clawz – Mutant Crawl Classics –  A Convenient Stop
11:00:00 PM Director Randy Miller – Horror Cinemas Classics –  Legion on the Lakefront   with Special Guests Paul Fricker (Chaosium) and Jon Hook (Modern Mythos)

Additionally, Freelance Artist Christopher Tupa will be putting up the incredible artworks pictured for raffle, as well as hanging out in the dcc_mayhem Twitch chat to take your requests for custom artworks! Starting at $25 for a black ink drawing and starting at $50 for color, this is NOT an opportunity you’ll want to miss!

The memorial play-a-thon is in memory of Jerry Stefek: gamer, father, friend and altruist. We tragically lost Jerry to aggressive lymphoma in 2018. ALL proceeds will be given to cancer research and patient assistance through Tiltify to the American Cancer Society!  Help us reach our $5,000 goal to push us past $32,000 to almost $37,000 over our 6 years of Crawl events! Perform Mighty Deeds to help those in need and spread Good to those afflicted. 

Please tell your friends about this awesome RPG entertainment event and join us this Saturday,  December 13th on the DCC Mayhem Twitch channel. Your donations, taken through Tiltify, will not only help the American Cancer Society but will also influence our games during this online event! Tell us what chaos or boon you would like our players to encounter, and we’ll put it in the game – donor’s choice!

Any donation of $5 or more will be entered in a drawing for great prizes every hour, featuring our awesome sponsors!  Please visit our sponsor site, as it is updated with our latest magnificent patrons!

Please join us Saturday, December 13th between 7 AM CST and Sunday, 2 AM CST on the Twitch channel DCC Mayhem, and cheer on our troupe.  Let’s SLEIGH our goal!  Thanks for your support!

Visit the Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet site for more details!

Website: https://crawlforthecure.net
Ethermeet site: https://ethermeet.crawlforthecure.net
Twitch TV: https://www.twitch.tv/dcc_mayhem
Ethermeet Sponsors: https://oursponsors-em.crawlforthecure.net

X/Twitter: @crawlforthecure
Bluesky: @crawlforthecure.bsky.social
Instagram: jerryscrawlforthecure

KICK OFF YOUR HOLIDAYS WITH THE CRAWL FOR THE CURE: ETHERMEET 2025!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2025, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, DCC Mayhem, donations, Ethermeet, Hero, impact, Judges, Memorial, Smite Cancer, Tiltify, token

Happy Holidays! December has come, and it’s time again for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2025! Please join us to spread Good for those who need assistance from the American Cancer Society! Once again, we will run the event on second Saturday of December, the 14th, from 7 AM until Sunday, 2 AM CST! We would love to have more West Coast viewers to cheer in the early morning Central with some Horror Cinema Classics and Director Randy Miller! We hope to see you there; now is the time for heroes!

The memorial play-a-thon is in memory of Jerry Stefek: gamer, father, friend and altruist. We tragically lost Jerry to aggressive lymphoma in 2018. ALL proceeds will be given to cancer research and patient assistance through Tiltify to the American Cancer Society!  We are just shy of $32,000 as we close out our 6 years of Crawls!  We’re still striving to make that goal of $5,000 for Ethermeet 2025 and we challenge our heroes to perform Mighty Deeds for Good. 

Please tell your friends about this awesome RPG entertainment event and join us on December 13th on the Twitch channel DCC Mayhem. Your donations, taken through Tiltify, will not only help the American Cancer Society but will also influence our games during this online event! Tell us what chaos or boon you would like our players to encounter, and we’ll put it in the game – donor’s choice!

Any donation of $5 or more will be entered in a drawing for great prizes every hour featuring our awesome sponsors!  We’re still working out the details, so we’re not yet updated on our Sponsorship, but please visit our sponsor site as it is updated with our latest awesome sponsors! 

AND. of course, late-night horror feature nostalgia will commence with your Judge and host Luau Lou as the uncanny host Insanti Clawz serving up his brand of Mutant Crawl Classics! Finally, we finish the celebration with our LATE LATE Night show as Director Randy Miller closes us out with Horror Cinema Classics! It is going to be AWESOME! 

Please join us Saturday, December 13th between 7 AM CST and Sunday, 2 AM CST on the Twitch channel DCC Mayhem, and cheer on our troupe.  Let’s SLEIGH our goal!  Thanks for your support!

Visit the Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet site (https://ethermeet.crawlforthecure.net) for more details!

X/Twitter: @crawlforthecure
Bluesky: @crawlforthecure.bsky.social
Instagram: jerryscrawlforthecure

THE XCRAWL 4 THE CURE CHECK HAS BEEN SENT!

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Thank you, all, for your generosity to the cause! We have sent the $4,200 cashier’s check to the American Cancer Society this weekend and hopefully it will be doing Good for people in need on Monday or Tuesday! I’m so happy we can give the ACS great news after all of our events. Thank you, all, for making this possible for those in need! We are proud to do our part in this work!

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the second Saturday of December, the 13th, to join us for incredible roleplaying games influenced by your donations at Ethermeet! We’ll have the same quality of awesome Judges running games and fun players to entertain you during the event, with the same hourly raffles to reward you for your generosity! We can’t wait to dazzle you again with Ethermeet!

Thank you!

Cory Welch and Staff
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure

XCRAWL 4 THE CURE RAISED GOOD TO WONDERFUL HEIGHTS! JIM ET KEITH INVICTUS!

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The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure hosted Xcrawl 4 the Cure at Gamehole 12 on Saturday, October 18th! Jim Meyers and Keith Nelson organized original Xcrawl content from 40 authors to bring you an amazing Xcrawl experience at Gamehole Con!  Players battled room by room versus the demon of greed, Mammon, and his dark minions for the soul of Xcrawl and lighting a beacon to the gods of Olympus to return their grace to the games! It was an incredible time for all, patches of sponsors adorning the battlevest of Apollo to ensure his return to the faithful elite competitors of Xcrawl! 

Through our incredible player donors and an incredible “Angel donation” of $1,000 from an honored contributor, we were able to raise a jaw-dropping $4,200 for the American Cancer Society from the event! That has brought The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure 6-year total of contributions to $31,795.95!  We honor all of our contributors for this endearing feat in doing Good for others in need! We are humbled by your faith and support to reach this peak!

ALSO, remember that Keith and Jim will be publishing all of these Xcrawl encounters into a PDF on DriveThruRPG so you can bring these to your table, and continue to support the American Cancer Society! I cannot express the amount of appreciation we have for Jim, Keith and all of the incredibly talented authors that have done this great charity work for us, and the massive amount of work it was to bring it all together.  THANK YOU!  You’ve done incredible things during a tough year for me (Cory), bringing the Crawl for the Cure to far greater heights! I bow to your efforts and the Good it will do! We will keep everybody informed of the future publication!

Jim et Keith Invictus!

We also had our memorials to our unforgotten friends who have passed before us: Adventurers’ Rest, Peter Garancis’ Pillar of Strength, and Bridget Traut brought the incredible portrait of Aaron Koelman by done by Doug Kovacs.  It is wonderful to have these monuments to love, strength and hope to which you all contribute to!  Thank you, all, for your support!

We will be getting in touch with the players to get them their game winnings soon! We apologize for the delay; the organizers have had some work focus shifts and family medical issues to attend to.  We will be getting back very soon!

And don’t forget! More holiday fun will be coming on December 13th, online on Twitch at Ethermeet 2025!  And another apology for the 2024 Memorial Tokens – YOU WILL RECEIVE THEM! My deepest apologies for the delays from last year. Stay tuned for Ethermeet 2025 game and sponsor information, coming soon!

(Links to team and sponsor information follow!)

Thank you to all of our incredible DJs and volunteer staff that made this event happen: Jim Meyers (DJ Unchained), Keith Nelson (DJ Dr Happy), Bryan SpellBURN (DJ SnowDawg), Gary Cunningham (DJ Gary Khan), John Watson (DJ Knight), DJ Foxy, Lou Hoeffer (DJ Lou-OW!-Lou), Jon Dennis (DJ Doctor Esquire), Bill Walters, Dave Rosser, Peter Garancis, Kylee Garancis, Steve Seminerio and Hazel Welch.

Thank you to our incredible sponsors that give you incredible content and prizes for your support of the Crawl!  Once again, we are humbled by their outstanding support to reward you for your generosity!  The holidays are coming!  Please visit our sponsors and give the gift of awesome to your adventurers this season!: Goodman Games, Troll Lord Games, Frog God Games, Dandyline Games, Purple Sorcerer Games, Stiff Whisker Press, Shield of Faith Studios, Get Haunted Industries,  Dark Nebula Games, Limithron, Ham & Egg Publishing, Gamehole Publishing, Super Savage Systems, Wayward Studios, Dirty Woods, Ink Slingers, Cranky Clydesdale Publishing, Horse Shark Games, Parallel Dimension Gaming, Dragon Peak Publishing, Dark Wizard Games, Per Aspera Games, Rugby Melee Games, Nerdronomicon, Blind Visionary Publications, Breaker Press, Studio 9 Games, Sanctum Secorum, Owl Knight Publishing, Marz Press, Planet X Games, Pacesetter Games, High Dive Games, Ophoric Labs, Hobbs & Friends, and GooeyCube! 

And thank you to our artist sponsors for providing incredible artwork for our raffles!: Bradley K. McDevitt, Jim Wampler, Stefan Poag, Kennon James, Nate Marcel, Joe Abboreno, Chris Arneson, Bridget Traut and Doug Kovacs!

THANK YOU, ALL, for all the Good you do!  Please quest to do Good daily!

Our DJs and volunteer staff for Xcrawl 4 the Cure Gamehole Con 12

Our sponsors for Xcrawl 4 the Cure Gamehole Con 12

Your Impact! See the year-by-year breakdown of your impact supporting the Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure!

XCRAWL 4 THE CURE – MORE ART – TELL YOUR FRIENDS AT GAMEHOLE CON!

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Hi all! More awesome artwork has come in for our all-attendee raffle!  Tell your friends and get in on this AWESOME loot from our talented artists of our time!  

Here’s the latest:

  • Dirty Woods has contributed an incredible RUN DCC dice box, which we’ll include in the raffles – it IS a work of art! (A DCC Demon Cover box will also be in the Tournament Prizes!)
  • Bridget Traut has the Owlbear Plushies on site!  I can’t wait to display these!
  • Kennon James has contributed his book, 3X3: A Post-It Note Collection Vol. 1 and the original of FURIOSA (or a similar being from the multiverse) for you to win! Beautiful!
  • Brad McDevitt has contributed an original Xcrawl Blaster to the raffles!
  • Doug Kovacs has contributed a watercolor painting to the raffles from the Adventures chapter of the Xcrawl Classics Rulebook! YOU WANT THIS ON YOUR WALL!

Tickets for the Owlbears are $3 for 1, $5 for 3.

Tickets for all the art raffles (which can be split between all artwork raffles) are $5 for 3, $10 for 8, $20 for 20.

Please take your chance to grab all these artworks and give to the American Cancer Society generously!

Aaron Koelman’s portrait by Doug Kovacs, will also be on display for you to see!  It is a thing of beauty, and not something you want to miss!

Also, Keith Nelson has created Team Patches for the 3 teams competing in the Crawl!

  • The Carcenoma Crushers
  • The Lymphoma Lacerators
  • The Sarcoma Smashers

Please show your support by picking up some patches for your battlevest! $5 each to CRUSH CANCER! (Sorry if you read this earlier – no discounts for multiple. Sorry for the misstating that. Thanks!)

Hourly raffles are posted, but they are a work in progress.  Some of those demons got into the works and we need to make some corrections!  HOWEVER, the sponsors are extremely generous and you will not be disappointed. Look for Apollo Battlevest in the dungeons and win some awesome prizes from our sponsors as well!  EPIC is the only way to describe the awesome!

Please come and play Xcrawl 4 the Cure at Gamehole Con on Saturday, October 18th, 2025 and help us push past our $30,000 threshold for our 6 years bringing great gaming and the power of your charity to those in need! Thank you for taking this journey with us, and we look forward to many more! More event details below! Thank you!

Sponsor Page: https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=70
Gamehole Event: https://gameholecon.com/events/event/28766
Donation Effects: https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=318
Raffles & Prizes Rules and Lists: https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=2878
Xcrawl 4 the Cure Special Rules: https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=2935

XCRAWL 4 THE CURE – LESS THAN A WEEK AWAY! FIGHT CANCER!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2025, ACS, American Cancer Society, Artwork, Crawl for the Cure, donations, Gamehole Con, token

Three days have passed and we have more incredible updates to share!  36 game company sponsors and 8 artists providing original works for all-attendee raffles! (Tell your friends!) Steve has reported we currently have 19 prizes every hour and rising for the raffles, and DJ Unchained (Jim Meyers) has categorized and compartmentalized your crawlers’ miseries and triumphs for Tournament rewards. Make history with the stories of your exploits and WIN THAT LOOT! 

Xcrawl 4 the Cure Memorial Token
Xcrawl 4 the Cure Memorial Token!

A few new rules for picking up prizes.  We will be able to work with you to give you any physical prizes you have won during two periods: 

  • After the event at 8:30 PM until we’re done packing up.
  • We have arranged tables in Hall A, 124 & 125 from 12:00 until 2:00 PM. Thank you to Gamehole Con for arranging this time for us!
  • NOTE: Some of the hourly raffle prizes are physical; please check in before you leave and we will give the assigned prize to you!

Notes on prizes:

  • Tournament prizes are first-come, first-serve – we will have a pool of prizes (INCREDIBLE PRIZES from our sponsors!) for those that arrive on time to loot before the rest! Gather your booty! 
  • We cannot mail prizes to you, sorry.  Any prizes not picked up will go into the pool for next year’s event.
  • PDF prizes will be mailed to the e-mail address you registered with at check-in. The e-mail will only be used for communicating with you about Crawl for the Cure – we will never use it for any other purpose.

SO, please get there early and claim your incredible prizes.

Finally, take a look at a few of the awesome artworks that have just come in for the raffles! Thank you, Joe Abboreno, Jim Wampler and Stefan Poag! We are honored to offer your great works for the cause!

Come and play Xcrawl 4 the Cure at Gamehole Con on Saturday, October 18th, 2025 and help us push past our $30,000 threshold for our 6 years bringing great gaming and the power of your charity to those in need! Thank you for taking this journey with us, and we look forward to many more! More event details below! Thank you!


Sponsor Page: https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=70
Gamehole Event: https://gameholecon.com/events/event/28766
Donation Effects: https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=318
Raffles & Prizes Rules and Lists: https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=2878
Xcrawl 4 the Cure Special Rules: https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=2935

XCRAWL 4 THE CURE – GAMEHOLE CON 12 ON OCTOBER 18TH!

Posted on by caddy1071 in ACS, American Cancer Society, DCC Mayhem, Gamehole Con

Wow! Sorry this has been late – things have been moving so fast we’ve been scrambling to update everything so you have all the information on the INCREDIBLE rewards from our 41 game company sponsors and artists, with the artists providing original works for all-attendee raffles! (Tell your friends!) Steve has reported we currently have 18 prizes every hour for the raffles, and we have many major prizes for bringing your A-game to the Crawl and dazzling your teammates and making great stories! The Crawl is ON!

Keith has come up with team patches to put on your battlevest! Each Xcrawl Team will be giving their 1000% to clean up the dungeon! Your allegiances are:

  • The Carcenoma Crushers
  • The Lymphoma Lacerators
  • The Sarcoma Smashers

We’re working on pricing, we’ll get you updated when that is finalized!

We did miss something, and I personally apologize. The pricing of the event was set at $20 per person, rather than the $10 that we have advertised, and what pricing will be going forward for purchased tickets on the Gamehole Con site – I did not check this and we have re-priced the tickets $10 so you can get in at the advertised price and use your money for the awesome exploits of Xcrawl! For those who bought the $20 tickets, we thank you profusely for your support! To make this up to you, we’ve decided to do the following to provide value:

  • Your choice of one of the team patches for free
  • 3 additional raffle tickets you can use during any hourly raffle of the day

We apologize for the oversight – thank you for your support!

Come and play Xcrawl 4 the Cure at Gamehole Con on Saturday, October 18th, 2025 and help us push past our $30,000 threshold for our 6 years bringing great gaming and the power of your charity to those in need! Thank you for taking this journey with us, and we look forward to many more! More event details below! Thank you!

  • MAMMON xc4tc

It is a dark time in the North American Empire. The gods have turned their back on Xcrawl and the great demon Mammon, the demon patron of greed, avarice and strife, has taken over Xcrawl with his minions! You need nothing more than to bring back the gods to Xcrawl. The demon lord has embedded himself and his minions into the fabric of the games, displacing the gods who have abandoned Xcrawl in their lethargy. The demons have imbued the games with corruption, siphoning the power of the Xcrawl’s faithful to their own ends.

But all hope is not lost! The crafty eternal sorceress and the bold goddess, Circe and Fortuna, have realized the workings of Mammon, if only too late. They have called together a loose coalition of DJs to form one giant Xcrawl funnel, drawing out Mammon and beseeching the gods to turn their favor back to the games and hungering folk of the NAE. The supernatural patrons and their devout followers have placed numerous eldritch sponsorship patches throughout the crawl: The patches are conduits of power that co-opt and channel the avarice of Mammon’s disciples into the symbols, awakening the return of power to mighty Apollo and the Pantheon. By placing the patches in sacrifice upon mighty Apollo’s battle vest, the growing power will awaken and draw the gods back to Xcrawl and the devout citizens of the NAE!
Although Mammon and his cohorts have their tentacles drawn tight around the games, this funnel’s ingrained sorceries can break that grip! The subtle invocation woven by the crawl funnel will draw Mammon and his minions to the arena, where they can be fought and defeated! Your teams can succeed where the gods cannot: Godly intervention would bring forth an apocalyptic war that few would survive! The task relies on you, the commoners of the NAE and your faith and courage to rise up and deliver Xcrawl back to the gods, slamming Mammon and his minions to their rightful place in the Hells!

Join us in this exclusive Xcrawl-themed “Mega-funnel” where common 0-level characters of the North American Empire dare challenge the invading demons using guile, objects of power found within, playable avatars of past epic Xcrawlers! Your donations buy you favor with Circe and Fortuna, increasing your chance of superherioc success and team glory in the Crawl! The more players engaged funnel, joining one of the three teams for gold, fame and glory, the more gamified power you will gain in defeating Mammon!
Purchase a ticket for the event and join us whenever you have time for this ever-popular charity event for the American Cancer Society! You will receive a memorial token for the event to present to play throughout the day! Multiple teams will work together and be sent through the competitive dungeon crawl! Your donations will directly benefit cancer patients and those affected by their suffering.
Each player will receive a “floating ticket” to use for any hour’s raffle, and every multiple of $4 donation will get you another ticket for that hour’s raffle. Non-players can also buy into hourly raffles for the $10 fee, receive a Memorial Token and join in the raffle fun! Non-players will also receive a “floating ticket” to use for any hourly raffle, and the same $4 multiple donation will apply to any hourly raffles. External donors are encouraged to influence the game with well-placed donations to swing the adventurers’ play for good or ill!
Players will be provided with pre-gens of random 0-levels from our towers of fodder populated by the Purple Sorcerer Games’ (https://purplesorcerer.com/) Xcrawl competitor generator. Come witness the “towers of meat” containing your replenishment of brave 0-levels to power the retaking of the games for the people!
Other awesome facets of the Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure:

  • Keep an eye in the Gamehole Con halls on Thursday and Friday! Free Memorial Tokens and a playable spirit of an immortal Xcrawl champion will be in envelopes around the convention to add to the chances of your 0-level character surviving the ripsaw deadliness of Xcrawl!
  • Raffles for original artworks – Current artists include Brad McDevitt, Stefan Poag, Nate Marcel, Jim Wampler, Kennon James, Chris Arneson and Joe Abboreno! These raffles will be open to all Con attendees. (Tell your friends!)
  • Bridget Traut has created 3 Owlbear plushies for us to raffle off! You’ll want to adore these beasties at home! These raffles are open to all Con attendees. (Tell your friends!)
  • We will celebrate our friends who have passed on with two special monuments: Adventurers’ Rest, celebrating those lost to us in the last year, and the Pillar of Strength, contributed by Peter Garancis, giving us a beautiful, interactive and visual remembrance of those we have lost to cancer while celebrating those who have survived. Place a pinned ribbon in the pillar to honor these loved ones!
  • The Mega-Funnel will be an experience you won’t forget, allowing your 0-level characters to compete in a slavering, bloody professional dungeon crawl! You will experience the craziness of such a funnel simultaneously with up to 18 other participants in the game! It’s an experience you don’t want to miss!
  • We have 34 gaming sponsors contributing – massively awesome! These incredible companies will award you their best products to thank you for your generous donations! Please check out the sponsors and raffle prize list nearer to the event (SOON!) and you will be amazed by their wonderful generosity!

On December 28, 2018, the gaming community suffered a major loss of a gaming friend in Jerry Stefek when he was lost to cancer. Jerry was an incredible father, friend, avid gamer, history buff and re-enactor. His love of these hobbies and friends was always evident in his words and actions. We would like celebrate Jerry and do Good works in his name, helping others in their time of need while going through this traumatic illness!

Wrap of Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2024 – many apologies

Posted on by caddy1071 in Uncategorized

Hello all! It has been a while since I’ve communicated and I will quickly apologize. I have to admit the been very “distracted” with current state of things in the U.S. and it has taken more of a toll on my being than I would like. I did take some personal time for myself for self-reflection in life and work in the downtime. It has taken me a while to get back to the Crawl, but your Xcrawl DJs Jim Meyers and Keith Nelson have been getting the game ready for Gamehole Con 2025 – Xcrawl 4 the Cure! I am sorry that my delay has resulted closing out Ethermeet this late. If you could forgive me, I would appreciate your kindness. Thank you!

We do have some great news! Our donations total expanded thanks to additional donations from Pete Garanacis of Dark Nebula Games ($100) and Jim Skach and the crew from Limiting Factor Games (DynaMaps!) ($200)! These generous donations in addition to our artwork proceeds kicked it up our Ethermeet ending total near $4,000!  To make sure we made this milestone, I kicked in a bit more for “interest” on the delay of payment in February to the American Cancer Society,  making the late donations up to $425. This brought our total for the Ethermeet event to $4,016 – we hit the $4,000 mark and beyond! (https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=2083) THANK YOU, ALL for this tremendous help to the ACS!  That puts our 5-year total to $27,595.95, which, gauging by historical contributions, should set our passing of the $30K mark at XCrawl 4 the Cure 2025 at Gamehole! Very exciting!

I do bring news of awesome things which progressed and are coming to the Crawl for the Cure inspired by your contributions!:

  1. The portrait of our dear friend Aaron Koelman painted through the eyes and talents of Doug Kovacs has been completed, and we have delivered it Aaron’s wife Bridget and son Aleric. It is a thing of beauty, and we thank Doug Kovacs for preserving the majesty of Aaron in his art forever. Bridget will bring the framed artwork to Gamehole Con, so everybody and see it live!
  2. We have sent the Thanatar sketch (Jennell Jaquays’ character portrait, transforming from magic-user to dragon!) by Nate Marcel to Jennell’s partner, Rebecca!  It’s a stunning artwork, and we’re very happy to have it passed to her hands!
  3. The Treasure Room – look forward to seeing Aaron’s portrait, other commissioned artworks and gaming material from Bob Brinkman and other Crawl work from our events being added to our upcoming Treasure Room website to share with the community!  This will take some work, but we hope to unveil this to you in the near future!
  4. The Jerry Stefek Memorial Tokens for Ethermeet have been sitting in Welch Manse for way too long! We will be sending these out to donors soon!  I am so sorry for the delay!

Don’t forget – our next event will be The Jerry Stefek Memorial Xcrawl 4 the Cure Gamehole Con 2025! Bring your 0-level candidates to gain glory and fame in the Imperial Death Sport of the North American Empire at Gamehole Con in October! Xcrawl has been hijacked by the evil demon Mammon and his minions, as the gods of the Pantheon have turned their backs on the honored competition. Your crawlers will conquer the challenges of Xcrawl searching for the sacred patches to adorn Apollo’s battle vest to return his eyes and blessings to Xcrawl! Look for more information in the near future! One thing I can tell you is Goodman Games has provided us three hardcovers, all signed by multiple folks at Gencon 2025!: a Xcrawl Classics Special Edition Rulebook, a Dungeon Denizens Special Edition, and a DCC Rulebook!  We’re excited to hand one of these books off to you for your incredible donations to the American Cancer Society!!! We can’t wait to see you at Gamehole Con 2025!

Thank you for making Ethermeet 2024 such a huge success!!!


Thank you!

Cory Welch and Staff
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure

JOIN US FOR THE JERRY STEFEK MEMORIAL CRAWL FOR THE CURE: ETHERMEET 2024 ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 2024!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2024, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, DCC Mayhem, donations, Ethermeet, Hero, Judges, RPG, Smite Cancer, token


The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2024 is moving full speed ahead to doing more Good for the American Cancer Society with your help! The event will be on Saturday, Dec. 14 from 7 AM until Sunday, 1 AM CST.

Unfortunately, we were unable to get this submitted in time, but this is a video we made for the American Cancer Society for the event.  Please take this opportunity to learn more about our namesake, Jerry Stefek, and how we strive to continue his ethos of Good:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T-RB98jKkqn3xSsxlRsN4FuVBw2gVc73/view?usp=sharing

Our Sessions – Start Times (CST), Judge, and System:  

7:00:00 AM Chuck Cumbow:  Castles & Crusades – The Lost Tower of Sivad
10:00:00 AM Edwin Nagy: Dungeon Crawl Classics – The 12 Days of Orcus
1:30:00 PM Jim Meyers: Weird Frontiers – Weird Journey to Corruption
4:30:00 PM Julian Bernick: Umerican Survival Guide – Find My Monkey!
7:30:00 PM Luau Lou: Mutant Crawl Classics – Christmas Comes to the Sky-High Tower
10:30:00 PM Brian Shutter:  Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland – Death Planet: Nakatomi

The memorial play-a-thon is in memory of Jerry Stefek: gamer, father, friend and altruist. We tragically lost Jerry to aggressive lymphoma in 2018.  Also, Aaron Koelman, DCC superfan, man of iron faith and will, man of supreme kindness and wisdom, who succumbed to his long battle with pancreatic cancer in 2023. And, alas, a friend of our supporters, Matt Bowen, has also been unfairly taken in the last year. We ask for you to help us prevent these tragedies. ALL proceeds from this event, as always, will be donated to further cancer research and patient assistance through the American Cancer Society.  

Any donation of $4 or more will be entered in a drawing for great prizes every hour featuring our awesome sponsors!  Please visit our sponsor site as it is updated for the latest updates! 

AND, there is more goodness to be had – we have two artist contributors who will be using their talents for the cause during the event!

  • Brad McDevitt, legendary Goodman Games artist, will be joining us from 11:00 AM CST until 5:00 PM CST working on an original artwork for the event! We’ll have raffle entries for the artwork available for a $5 donation, and we’ll be checking in with Brad to check his progress through the event! He’ll be hosting his art jam from his Facebook account, should anyone want to keep a window open watching his work! Check out Brad’s art at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BradMcDevittArtStore!
  • Christopher Tupa will be taking requests for sketches during his game with Insanti Claws at the Final Admission Theater and Half-Price Oyster Bar at 7:30 PM CST! Want to see Shrek with a light saber? Bob the BurgerBarbarian? Make your suggestion, make a donation, and Christopher will get to work! Christopher will post the sketches in his blog at his website after the event for everyone to share at http://www.ctupa.com! (Don’t forget to check his other art on the site while you are there!)

View our list of extraordinary Judges and players gathering for your entertainment, and see the game and raffle schedule (always being updated, but look at that Judges list!) so you are sure to have contributed by the time your “must-have” creator is scheduled in the raffle lists! Your $4 donation also gets you a thank you from us with your Ethermeet 2024 Memorial Token, this year featuring incredible Weird Frontiers artwork – DESIGN FRESHLY CRAFTED! Thank you, Hazel!

Additionally, at 7:30 PM CST, tune in for a little twist of late-night horror nostalgia with your Judge and host, Luau Lou (as Insanti Claws!), and the late night show at 10:30 PM CST with Brian Shutter!

Finally, DONATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!  If you’d like to support the cause and you can’t make the event, we’d love to have your support!  You can find the instructions and links for donation here!  Thank you for your support!

Please tell your friends about this awesome RPG entertainment event and join us on December 14th on the Twitch channel DCC Mayhem. Your donations, taken through Tiltify, will not only help the American Cancer Society but will also influence our games during this online event. Tell us what chaos or boon you would like our players to encounter, and we’ll put it in the game – donor’s choice!

We look forward to seeing you there!

THE CHECK IS OFF TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY! THANK YOU FOR OUR GREAT VICTORY!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2024, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, Gamehole Con, Results, Smite Cancer

Thank you all for you all for your support of the Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Gamehole Con 2024 Dark Tower event! We had to wait for a big donation to get through the red tape, however, we have obtained it and the check is on its way to the American Cancer Society! (See pictures below.) All, in all, we have a revised total of $4,167, which raises our total impact with ACS to $23,579.95 for the past 5 years! Thank you donors and sponsors for enabling us to give this aid to those in need!

I did want to make a very special call out to Bob Brinkman, who I failed to thank in my event wrap-up and I was mortified! (The post has been amended!) Bob took the time under a tight schedule to craft the stats for Jennell Jaquays favorite alter ego, Thanatar the Just, a red wyrm disguising herself as a human wizard to interact with the world of men! Thanatar was an advisor and aid during the Dark Tower adventure, and even a warrior in the final battle versus the evil lich Pnessutt in the Dark Tower.

Thank you, Bob for contributing this slice of awesome! We will be posting this content for everyone to use in their home games! Stay tuned for its release, we’d love to have this material in your hands to have the spirit of Jennell within your games!

And don’t forget! The second week of December means the Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet! Please join us on Twitch Channel DCC Mayhem for 18 hours of your favorite systems spiced up with suggestions from your donations: DCC, MCC, Castles & Crusades, Umerica Survival Guide, Weird Frontiers and a heaping helping of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland for dessert! It will be EPIC, and we’d love to see you there! We’ll be wrapping up the festivities with our own brand of late-night horror with Luau Lou and Brian Shutter with a double feature starting with Insanti Claws and the Final Admission Theater and Half-Price Oyster Bar!

Join us for the fun and donate to help others that need of your support through the American Cancer Society! Happy Holidays!