UPDATES FOR THE RETURN TO THE CARNIVAL OF THE DAMNED EVENT AT GAMEHOLE 13 2026!

Posted on by caddy1071 in Uncategorized

Hello all! We are rapidly approaching the big Return to the Carnival of the Damned event at Gamehole Con 13! We are doing our best to make it an epic run, you will want to be there!


You’ve seen our artwork donated by our incredible artist sponsors:

  • Nate Marcel of Umerica fame!
  • Joe Abboreno of XCC and MCC artworks!
  • And more to come:
    • Brad McDevitt of Goodman Games legend!
    • Kennon James of many RPG projects including Mythmere, and his own publications: 3×3 and Monsters!

Nate Marcel’s Raffle Art Contributions for Gamehole 13 2026!

Joe Abboreno Raffle Art Contributions for Gamehole 13 2026!

Look for Brad and Kennon’s contributions soon!


We will be opening raffles for these awesome works to all Gamehole Con attendees, so get to the Atrium on Saturday, October 17th and pickup your chances to win. See for donation raffle ticket pricing!


Additionally, we would like to join in the memory of our gaming friends and family that have been lost in the past year. We have our memorial created for them, Adventurers’ Rest, which we display every year at Gamehole Con. If there is someone you would like to remember, please contact us. We’ll need a digital 5×7 picture, and we will print it and remember your friend or loved one in the Adventurers’ Rest memorial. Remembrance, awareness, prevention and healing is what The Jerrry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure is all about.


Please contact us through a Facebook Message or through our e-mail address, jerryscrawlforthecure@gmail.com, for any questions or more details. We will also place it on the website when we finally get the time to create a worthy page. (we will confirm with you before doing that) Thank you for sharing your memories with our community and spreading awareness.


Thank you!


Hope to see you at the event:
Return to the Carnival of the Damned at Gamehole Con 13
Saturday, October 17th, 2026 from 10 AM to 8 PM
Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI

WE HAVE CREATED OUR FACEBOOK PAGE FOR THE JERRY STEFEK MEMORIAL CRAWL FOR THE CURE!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2026, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, Gamehole Con, Memorial, Smite Cancer

We’ve created our group page on Facebook! We would love to have you follow us for more updates and information! Search for “The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure” on Facebook and you’ll see Jerry’s smiling face in the logo leading the way!

Our Gamehole Con event is coming up on Saturday, October 17th: Return to the Carnival of the Damned! It was the first we ran in 2019, we’re preparing to bring this classic and timeless adventure into our mutliplayer mega-funnel to wow our players! Give a $10 donation through Gamehole Con purchasing at ticket, and come and play in the Atrium any time there is a seat. Join one of 3 parties of 6 traverse the pink mists of the Carnival of the Damned! Get your tickets here – all donations through Gamehole ticket purchases and from game play go 100% to the American Cancer Society! Pre-registration ends tomorrow, please consider playing for the cause!

THANK YOU FOR A VERY SUCCESSFUL CRAWL FOR THE CURE: ETHERMEET 2025!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2025, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, Ethermeet, Hero, Judges, Memorial, RPG, Smite Cancer, Thank You, token

Hello all! Thank you ALL for your support for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2025!  We had 19 hours of RPG entertainment in 6 expert sessions with the best game Judges and players around! We raised $3,800 for the American Cancer Society through our donors’ efforts and the incredible artwork donated and custom art created by Christopher Tupa! It was an AMAZING event! We thank our sponsor companies, donors, Judges, players for all your efforts to raise this money for those in need!

We then left the donations open and asked if anyone could please add to our donations so we could help those in need to our help!  Our donors put in over $250 more into Tiltify on Monday to answer that call – you all are AMAZING!  I thank you for your incredible generosity during this trying time – you are all HEROES! We are proud of all YOU have accomplished for those in need!  THANK YOU!

To cover the 5% Tiltify fee on your donations, we have put in additional money to cover this and made our grand total for the event is $4,286!  An INCREDIBLE amount from INCREDIBLE donors!  I cannot say enough how much joy we receive from seeing your works aid those in need.  This brings your total impact over the past 6 years to $36,081.95 – AMAZING!

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We still have plenty to do over here – we have many prizes to award and raffles to resolve, but we just wanted to get a thank you out to all of you for this excellent deed. We will be in touch soon – please continue the Good charity in this season of giving.

A very special thank you to our most generous sponsors and our Judges and players who made this all possible:

Castle Keeper Chuck Cumbow (Troll Lord Games)
Judge Brendan LaSalle (Goodman Games)
Judge Tim Deschene (Master Judge!)
Judge Edwin Nagy (Parallel Dimension Games)
Judge “Luau Lou” Hoefer (Dandyline Games)
Director Randy Miller (Wayward Studios)

And ALL our master players!

Please consider our sponsors for your holiday adventure needs! We will be back soon! Happy Holidays!

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: Gamehole Con 2025 RAISED GOOD TO WONDERFUL HEIGHTS! JIM ET KEITH INVICTUS!

Posted on by caddy1071 in Uncategorized

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!

Posted on by caddy1071 in Uncategorized

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