Three days have passed and we have more incredible updates to share! 36 game company sponsors and 8artists 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!
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!
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!
NOTE: Some of the hourly raffle prizes are physical; please check in before you leave and we will give the assigned prize to you!
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!
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!
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!
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!:
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!
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!
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!
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
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:
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!
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!
Hello all! A brave cadre of crawl heroes played throughout the day on October 19th, 2024 to pit their heroic neophytes against the vastly superior forces of the dark god Set, and emerged victorious through their pluck and donations to the noble cause! Through their donations in-game and in raffles (of awesome arts – plushie and drawn!), we have a current total of $4,040 to give to the American Cancer Society! That is a full $1,000 more than last year’s totals minus our $2,000 angel donation; that is incredible! Additionally, That puts our Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure’s 5 years of charity events over our $20K mark, to a revised total of $23,579.95! Thank you to all who contributed so generously to the cause! You can see our wrap up blog post here!
71 players (and some first-timers through our Golden Ticket trial characters!) ran through the DCC OAR release of Dark Tower with their 0-level crawlers, taking on this high-level adventure with their cleverness and moxy, uncovering Mitra’s Lions avatars to battle for the cause, while using the power of their donations to move the story and skirmishes forward! The players were able to recover the pieces of the sacred Lion of Mitra statue and defeat the malevolent lich Pnessutt and his Sons of Set minions to cleanse the defiled Dark and White Towers of Set’s overreaching evil!
This force of heroes has enabled the American Cancer Society to perform their vital research and education, helping to prevent the disease and aid those afflicted in their time of need. THANK YOU, heroes, for giving your treasure to make this possible!
We do have a few things to wrap up for the event, so please read over the following:
We are wrapping up on items being awarded – thank you sponsors providing your awesome works! Check out the tournament prizes awarded!
We do have an issue with the Jennell Jaquays/Thanatar original artwork that we raffled off; the winner never collected it! We want to get this into the winner’s hands, however they did not leave any contact information on the raffle ticket. If you did participate in the Thanatar raffle and still have your tickets, the winner number was: Green Ticket 326202 If you are the winner and can send us a picture of the ticket, we’d love to get this awarded to you. Please contact us at jerryscrawlforthecure@gmail.com. Thank you!
Finally, we need to emphasize our policy on sending physical rewards post-convention. We posted it this year, but it wasn’t as visible as we would have wanted, so we’ll reiterate it here for future events, as well as display it prominently:
We cannot send out physical rewards after the convention, shipping is costly these days, and we cannot continue the process.
You can pick up your physical rewards: 1) During the event throughout the day, 2) At the end of the event – we wrap up at 8 PM, 3) In the Atrium on Sunday from 12:00 PM until 2:30 PM.
For this round, we’re going to send the items to donors; we’ll have them pay us for shipping if they’d like to still receive them, however, we will foot the shipping cost for this year and add the collected total to this year’s donations giving an extra boost for the American Cancer Society.
In the future, uncollected physical items will be reserved for the next year’s event.
Please note this policy for future events. We want to get you your rewards for your generous donations, but the post-Con mailing is too much of a burden in time and treasure! Thank you for your continued consideration in this matter!
Finally, we wanted to thank the incredible people involved with making Crawl for the Cure Gamehole: Dark Tower possible:
Our incredible Sponsors! The amount of generosity our sponsors give us to award you for your donations is staggering. Please visit our sponsors list, review their incredible products and consider purchasing their wonderful works for your holiday and birthday shopping! Thank you, sponsors for providing so much to encourage our donors to give!
Our incredible Judges:
Julian Bernick
Gary Cunningham
Jason Hobbs
Brian Martin
Jim Meyers
Edwin Nagy
Keith Nelson
Bjorn Nelson
Christophor Rick
Paul Smith
Jim Meyers – “the builder” – Thank you Jim for your incredible works making the Crawl for the Cure even better! Jim provided the awesome Judge stands to keep us organized, the Lions Statue of Mitra prop for the event, and if you rang the Gong of Doom in celebration of your character’s demise, was also from the hands of Jim Meyers! Thank you for making things awesome, Jim!
Peter Garancis – Peter created the beautiful Pillar of Strength, to visually display and celebrate those loved ones lost to cancer and the strength of those who have survived! Thank you, Peter, for this wonderful reminder of the effect of cancer in our lives!
Bill Walters – for contributing awesome stuff from your collection for donor benefit every year AND being the main support gopher at the Crawl!
Keith Nelson – for the concept of the Lion Statue of Mitra, which helped cement a lot to of the mechanics together!
Bjorn Nelson – for taking an 8-hour day (probably more!) of Judging Dark Tower, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, taking up HIS ENTIRE SATURDAY of Gamehole Con! Thank you SO much for your dedication, Bjorn!
Bridget Traut – for creating awesome plushies to raffle for the Crawl! And, she has pledged for more next year! Thank you, Bridget!
Nate Marcel – Nate put together the awesome artworks of Thanator/Jennell Jaquays and Akaerrian Keenblade with a few weeks notice! THANK YOU for your incredible efforts to get them to us in time for the event – we appreciate it and the beauty contributed, Nate!
Bob Brinkman – For creating the stats for Thanatar, the favorite character of Jennell Jaquays, a red wyrm transforming herself into a human wizard to walk the realms of man. Thanatar was instrumental as an NPC who provided guidance in the Dark Tower and assisted in the end game! Stay tuned for the Crawl for the Cure to present this awesome content to you for your games from this website!
Thank you, Ray Teresi, for helping us with the Crawl Operations!
Finally, the Crawl for the Cure would not exist if it were not for Steve Seminerio and my wonderful wife Hazel Welch, spending many hours under me as task master! THANK YOU – it was a very crazy preparation time for Dark Tower this year, and the Crawl for the Cure would never have made it (nor would it any other year!) without their above and beyond, dedicated help for the event! THANK YOU!
I want to express my love and gratitude to everyone involved: sponsors, players, Judges and support staff! We continue to make this world a better place every year, and I am deeply in your debt!
Don’t forget, the second week of December (Saturday the 14th this year) we take the Crawl into the sea of bits with The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2024! Our dedicated Judges will once again go into the wee hours of the morning to entertain you! (Take advantage, West Coast – the Luau Lou and Brian Shutter “late-night horror” events are confirmed!) It will be another awesome event with the opportunity to spread some Good to the world! We hope to see you there!
Hello all! An update for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure at Gamehole Con 11, October 19th, 2024, 10 AM – 8 PM! We will be running the Goodman Games Original Adventures Reincarnated version of Jennell Jaquays’ legendary adventure, Dark Tower, as a “mega-funnel”. 0-level characters will be pitted against the full-octane adventure to fight to survive with their wits, luck and donations to the worthy cause of the American Cancer Society. ALL collected donations will, as always, be given to the American Cancer Society for research and assistance benefiting those and their loved ones in the hold of this terrifying disease.
The story will unfold on a 12’ x 12’ massive map of the Towers and dungeon, and it is HUGE. You will not want to miss this call to Adventure! Get your ticket to pick up your memorial token for the event at the link below! Can’t purchase a ticket online or unsure of your schedule? Not a problem! Place your $10 donation at the Crawl for the Cure Atrium registration table and receive your token to play!
We are happy to announce our incredible sponsors providing you with raffle prizes (digital and physical!) for your generous donations – many have heeded the call!:
321Action RPG
Blind Visionary Publications
Bill Walters
Bridget Traut
Cranky Clydesdale Publishing
Dandyline Games
Dark Nebula Games
Frog God Games
Mike Badolato of Frog God Games
Gamehole Publishing
Get Haunted Industries
Goodman Games
High Dive Games
Hobbs & Friends
Horse Shark Games
Limithron
Marz Press
Nate Marcel
Ophoric Labs
Pacesetter Games
Per Aspera Games
Purple Pirate Games
Purple Sorcerer Games
Shield of Faith Studios
Stiff Whiskers Press
Studio 9 Games
Thickskull Adventures
Super Savage Systems
Troll Lord Games
Wayward Studios
(See all of our incredible sponsors HERE and support their awesome endeavors!)
More fun things to announce, which create delays in communication, but it is SO worth it; SO MANY GREAT THINGS TO COME!
The event donation and menu, prizes and special rules for the Dark Tower event have been updated
We have a quest for you! Keep an eye out for mysterious envelopes at Gamehole containing your free Memorial Token and your soul link to a Mitriatic Hero to ramp up your 0-level immediately! Already have a token? Give one to a friend (and keep the Avatar)! We’ll have the envelopes placed randomly Thursday and Friday, and we’ll let you know when you should hunt!
We have handsome CRAWL HERO badge ribbons to display your support for the Crawl for the Cure! Also, 2 lucky players per hour have a chance for SQUIRE and KNIGHT ribbons with awesome ACS magnetic pins on them that really draw the eye and has game effects!
Bridget Traut has donated 3 AWESOME Owlbear plushies for raffle! Open to all Con attendees, take these sweet little beasties home to adore!
Nate Marcel has created an awesome original artwork of Jennell Jaquays as her favorite character transforming from wizard to dragon, AND he has also done his rendition of Aaron Koelman’s alter ego, Akaerrian Keenblade! (See the teasers) The special raffles are open to all Con attendees, so tell your friends! Details link below!
We will be displaying memorials for our lost friends and fighting survivors this year: those who have passed this year in our community, “Adventurers’ Rest”, and Peter Garancis has created a stunning “The Pillar of Strength” honoring those we have lost to cancer and those loved ones who have survived! An optional, small donation to the event would be much appreciated to place ribbons in your loved ones’ honor upon the pillar, but not necessary. We love to celebrate and honor those affected and bring hope to others who are in need! Bring those warm memories!
Mike Badolato’s donated collection of Judge’s Guild commons will be returning to Gamehole for anybody who’d like to own a piece of history! Peruse and take home some old school today!
Your play is enhanced by the number of people playing at one time and collected pieces of the sacred Lion of Mitra Statue scattered through the dungeon and Towers! The more you collect, the more bonuses you will receive! Additionally, our sponsors have put special prizes in the dungeon for roll-off to the team that accesses them in the dungeon! Claim victories for reaching the room before other teams! (Starting rooms are randomized!)
An update, Doug Kovacs’ portrait of Aaron Koelman’s Akaerrian Keenblade persona will still be coming, but Doug is a busy man! We wil get you updates on the awesome artwork as it proceeds!
We hope you’ll join the cause and help us smite cancer! Watch the website for updates as the event comes closer! Thank you for your support!
Thank you!
Cory Welch and Staff The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure
Hello all! We are back with The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure at Gamehole Con 11, October 19th, 2024 and we would love to see you there! We will be running the Goodman Games Original Adventures Reincarnated version of Jennell Jaquays’ legendary adventure, Dark Tower, as a “mega-funnel”. 0-level characters will be pitted against the full-octane adventure to fight to survive with their wits, luck and donations to the worthy cause of the American Cancer Society. ALL collected donations will, as always, be given to the American Cancer Society for research and assistance benefiting those and their loved ones in the hold of this terrifying disease.
The story will unfold on a 12’ x 12’, massive map of the Towers, similar to last year, which was amazingly fun and a sight to see. There are a myriad of opportunities for prizes and adventure that you won’t want to miss! Get your ticket to pick up your memorial token to play in the event at the link below! Can’t purchase a ticket online, yet or unsure of your schedule? Not a problem! Place your $10 donation at the Crawl for the Cure Atrium registration table and receive your token to play!
We are happy to announce our incredible sponsors providing you with raffle prizes (digital and physical!) for your generous donations. Our current list of sponsors (with hopefully more to come) are:
3, 2, 1… Action Games
Blind Visionary Publications
Cranky Clydesdale Publishing
Dandyline Games
Dark Nebula Games
Frog God Games
Gamehole Publishing
Goodman Games
High Dive Games
Hobbs & Friends
Get Haunted Industries
Limithron
Marz Press
Nate Marcel
Ophoric Labs
Pacesetter Games
Per Aspera Games
Planet X Games
Purple Pirate Games
Purple Sorcerer Games
Shield of Faith Studios
Stiff Whiskers Press
Studio 9
Super Savage Systems
Troll Lord Games
Wayward Studios
(See all of our incredible sponsors HERE and support their awesome endeavors!)
We would also like to announce a few special things that have been in the works that are dear to us we now present to you!
Please applaud Wayward Studios for creating an ex-Adventurer NPC in memory of our fond friend Aaron Koelman in their release, Out of Gnollwhere. They created the stout Innkeeper, Akaerrian Keenblade, imprinting Aaron upon the character so he is always within our hearts and on our bookshelves! Thank you, Wayward Studios, for the touching remembrance!
We also are commissioning Doug Kovacs to create a portrait of the Akaerrian Keenblade persona, so we can always have Aaron with us in spirit at every Crawl for the future! It won’t be done by Gamehole Con, unfortunately, however, Doug will give us a digital copy of his work so far so Aaron will be with us at Gamehole Con 2024 and beyond!
And more exciting news, Nate Marcel, of Umerica cover acclaim, has created an awesome original artwork of Jennell Jaquays as her favorite character – a female red dragon in the guise of a magic user! I’ve seen his initial artwork; it is an incredible rendition of Jennell transforming from a human to a red dragon, and it is stunning! A lucky raffle winner will take it home after the event! The special raffle will be open to all Con attendees, so tell your friends! Details link below!
We will be setting up a few memorials for our lost friends and fighting survivors this year: a picture memorial of those who have passed this year in our community, “Adventurers’ Rest”, and, Peter Garancis is putting together “The Pillar of Strength” honoring those lost to cancer and those who have survived the disease. A small donation will enable you to place ribbons in their honor. It will be an awesome sight and an incredible remembrance for our loved friends, bringing warm memories and hope! Well done, Peter!
We hope you’ll join the cause and help us smite cancer! Watch the website for updates as the event comes closer! Thank you for your support!
Thank you!
Cory Welch and Staff The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure
The Jerry Stefek Crawl for the Cure and its incredible judges are bringing back another Legendary dungeon delve, the DCC Original Adventures Reincarnated release of Dark Tower by Jennell Jaquays and Bob Brinkman at Gamehole Con 11! All the Mega-funnel you’ve come to expect from the Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure, raffle support by the best RPG creators in the industry and ALL monies collected will go to the American Cancer Society (https://cancer.org)! We return after three previous Gamehole Con events times in the past, and last year we raised an incredible $5,000, and we should break $20,000 in total collected over our 5-year history with this event! We ask for your help to make the Dark Tower event another record fund-raising year and join us for this milestone occurrence!
In an age long past, the malicious god of evil, Set, sprang forth his Dark Tower before the White Tower of Mitra to assault and irradicate the forces of good contained there. The resulting battle of evil and divine unleashed horrific magic that brought the mountains crashing down on both towers, sealing them in darkness and fading behind the veil of time.
The faithful of Mitra, have been chosen to cleanse the lost temples of the taint of Set’s evil and return Mitra back to strength through the White Tower! Join us for our next “Mega-funnel” where common 0-level characters dare to delve the overwhelming deep with their guile, objects of power found within, playable avatars of past heroes and even aid from the celestial allies of Mitra! The dark powers arrayed before you, your donations and concurrent players at the table increase your power through boons of fate and Mitra! The more players engaged by joining one of the three parties questing on the oversized 12×12 map of the towers, the more advantage you will gain in your conflict with the dark forces of Set.
Purchase a ticket for the event and join us whenever you have time for this very special event for the American Cancer Society! (Link in comments below.) You will receive a Memorial Token for the event to present to play throughout the day! Your donations will enable the American Cancer Society to directly benefit cancer patients and those affected by their suffering.
Our incredible sponsors provide hourly donation raffle prizes of their works to our players, their incredible offerings award you for your generosity to the ACS. We look forward to bringing more hours of adventure and beauty at the Dark Tower event! Visit the site for updates!
Purchasing a ticket for this event will not affect your schedule at Gamehole Con. You can play whenever you have time and there is an opening in the questing parties! Memorial Tokens for play will also be available at the Crawl for the Cure Event Registration Table in the Atrium for play and raffles; bring friends and join the quest!
Come witness the “towers of meat” containing your replenishment of brave 0-levels in your quest for good, gold and glory! (Courtesy of https://purplesorcerer.com!) Take your place in cleansing the darkness of the towers for the return of the Light! We’ll see you there!
Hello everyone! We’ve made multiple social media posts on Crawl for the Cure Gamehole Con 2024, but I entirely missed updating the blog on the site. It’s been a crazy couple of months with necessary trips, other big games and a failed technical certification re-up. (Back to the drawing board. 🙂 )
The following posts will be a round-up of the announcements for the Crawl for the Cure: Gamehole Con 2024 Dark Tower event, and we’ll post the results after! Thank you all for your support, and I’ll give the spoiler – it was an INCREDIBLE EVENT!
Thank you all! It’s an incredible RPG community out there!!
Sincerely,
Cory Welch and Staff The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Gamehole Con 2024 – DARK TOWER!
