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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

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

Published to social media October 6, 2024.

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

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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

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WITNESS. This is your incredible community!  This is not even all the physical products from the amazing RPG community who are giving with love to reward you for your donations to the American Cancer Society, and this does not cover the massive amount of PDFs! (See the seemingly ever-expanding lists here!) There is a dizzying array of awesome from these unbelievable companies for your donations in The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure Gamehole 2023: Take Back Tegel Manor on Saturday, October 21st, 2023! Please consider joining us and donating for your memorial token for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure and getting in on these amazing hourly raffles, and the two major open raffles – the magnificent Doug Kovacs original “Countess Rank Rumpula” event artwork, as well as the original shrink-wrapped 1995 Ravenloft Module Neither Man Nor Beast, donated by 2 Old Guy Games in the memory of their good friend Steve Strecker. Your $10 donation for the memorial token can always be used to play, or just participate in the raffles with a minimum $3 donation per hour. See the details here. 

Finally, keep your eyes open for envelopes containing free avatars set around the Con tomorrow!  These will give your 0-levels access to some tragically lost heroes, summoned back to this twilight world for a reckoning at Tegel Manor!  These envelopes will contain your memorial token for the event, the donation covered by our team – it will be in the totals!  Use this to have immediate access to higher powers vs. the Rump menace!

Join us on Saturday for an incredible time of adventure and brilliant, shining Good for the American Cancer Society!  We hope to see you there!

Please visit the Crawl for the Cure Gamehole Con site (https://crawlforthecure.net/wpcftc/?page_id=841) for more details and follow us on Twitter/X @crawlforthecure for more updates!

Gamehole Con X cometh and The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure run of Take Back Tegel Manor!, the Dungeon Crawl Classics 0-Level Mega-Funnel run in Frog God Games’ 2019 5th Edition release of Tegel Manor is close! We have very exciting sponsor news for our donors – you’ll drool at the goodies from our fine sponsors!

On Saturday, October 21, 2023, Frog God Games is providing Jerry’s Crawl a 16 x 16-foot battle map-scale map of Tegel Manor for a Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics Mega-Funnel of heroic proportions! The Rumps’ evil is seeping beyond the manor walls to Tegel Village; your villager plebians will rise to purge the malevolence of the Rumps before they claim you as their own undead servants! Through clever plans and magic collected throughout the Manor, your peasants take on the Rump threat!

Your $10 ticket purchase for the event gives you manor access and a memorial token (with incredible Doug Kovacs original artwork!) to present to play throughout the day! Multiple villager parties will work together and be sent on missions throughout Tegel Manor to crumble the foundations of the Rump legacy: collect magic items, garner supernatural support and patronage, gain ethereal blessings and defeat Rump kin upon your quest, donating to flip the odds in your favor! ALL funds collected from tickets and donations will benefit the American Cancer Society. Buy a ticket through the Gamehole Con site or contribute your $10 at the table and quest to help those afflicted! Our goal is to beat the $1,800 total collected last year to help cancer victims and those affected by their suffering through the ACS; we ask you to heed the call!

And, of course, you can expect our incredible sponsors to provide hourly raffle prizes and awesome end-of-event prizes for our players for their in-game donations! The renowned names you expect, as well as new sponsors, have added to the ranks: Goodman Games, Frog God Games, Troll Lord Games, Dandyline Games, Planet X Games, Get Haunted Industries, Wyrmwood Gaming and so many more are giving their high-quality products as raffle rewards and prizes for your generosity. Bad Mike of Frog God Games has pledged original Judges Guild products to players (while supplies last!) to give you a taste of the original creators! Traditional hourly raffles for donors will occur throughout the entire event, and special prizes will be given at the closing, including a Dungeon Crawl Classics Rulebook signed by a crazy number of Goodman Games authors, Twitch and table notables! Additionally, Doug Kovacs has pledged the original artwork created for the event for a raffle to benefit ACS! Players will all get one free raffle chance and we’ll sell tickets so everybody has a chance to take home this beautiful Doug Kovacs artwork – it is stunning!

Please visit the Crawl for the Cure Gamehole Con site for more details and follow us on Twitter/X @crawlforthecure for more updates!

We hope to see you there so we can once again smite this affliction and aid others in education and care if they are affected by cancer’s callous grip! Thank you for your support!

Hello Crawlers! I think many of you already know – The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure Ethermeet Memorial Tokens were in the mail last week, as well as all the prizes we are sending from Crawl Central! If you have not received them yet, you will be receiving them soon!

Thank you so much for your support throughout all the Crawl for the Cure events!

The next stage is releasing the live play sessions from not only Ethermeet 2022, but also the “lost” sessions from Ethermeet 2021! I’ve already started editing up Ethermeet 2021, and I will try to get those to Twitch and YouTube as soon as I can manage for your enjoyment; these sessions are much too good not to post them for others to enjoy! “Watch this space!” We’ll keep you up-to-date on the session releases as time goes on!

Take care and wish you all an extraordinary 2023! Game on and never lose your thirst for adventure!

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

Greetings in 2023, Crawlers! I apologize for the lag in responses – with Gamehole and Ethermeet events so close to each other for the first time, I had quite a bit to catch up on at home and work! The Memorial Tokens for Ethermeet 2022 are in and they look GREAT with the wonderfully blazing artwork of Nate Marcel! We hope to have these all out to you by next week, latest, along with all the physical prizes which are due you from the event! Thank you so much for your support!

Additionally, on December 19th, I sent the direct cash donations we had from some generous pre-donors to the American Cancer Society directly, so they could take the full effect of the funds! We also threw in a true-up of the 5% Tiltify fees that brought our total up to the full $4,185.55 for the ACS to use for its noble cause! We thank everyone for making this aid possible with their time and treasure to make Ethermeet a success!

Thank you for your support of The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2022! We’ll be getting all the donors a personal thank you in token goodness and finish up our physical mailings of prizes in the near future. Happy New Year, and we wish you all the best in 2023! We are blessed by this amazing community!

Hello all!  The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2022 concluded last night, and with a few more donations after hours, we are proud to announce with your help we were able to raise $4,185.55 for the American Cancer Society between Tiltify and $725 of pre-event donations!  That is an amazing feat, especially in these strange economic times. We thank you ALL for your generosity in making a real difference in people’s lives.  Thank you for your support of the event! 

A special thanks to all of our sponsors (please visit them for your holiday shopping!) and to our Judges and players for providing their time and talents to entertain us with their sessions!

Thank you Judges:

• Judge Edwin Nagy
• Castle Keeper Chuck Cumbow
• Judge Julian Bernick
• Judge Luau Lou Hoefer (as Insanti Clawz!)

Thank you to Luau Lou for putting on an awesome show with this crew; Lou tapped the muse of the late night horror show to bring us the Final Admission Theater & ½ Price Oyster Bar, hosted by his alternate persona, Insanti Clawz! His players dressed for the part, and it was an incredible play of Julian Bernick’s Home for the Holideath! Thank you Final Admission Theater crew! The 2021 and 2022 sessions will be going up on YouTube for your enjoyment in the near future, be sure to catch up on what you missed, there were awesome sessions in both!

A very special thanks to Reid San Filippo and Shield of Faith Studios for his very generous $500 donation to the cause to put us over $1,000 more earned than last year’s Ethermeet! Thank you for your generous donation to the cause, Reid!

Finally, I wanted to thank Steve Seminerio and my amazing and tireless wife, Hazel Welch, for their countless hours of work helping me put these events together! It simply could not be done without them, so kudos goes to them for their work and for putting up with stressed me at the same time!

The top prizes were awarded, and we’re going to take a few days rest, then we’ll start getting the prizes out to you. Thank you all for your continuous support for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure in all of our events!  Happy Holidays, and thanks for making a difference in the lives of those in need!

A great thanks to our Grassroots Flyer Contest winner, Mark Manchester! Thanks for Mark and his home FLGS, The Sanctum in Racine, WI for his help to publicize The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2022! $100 of adventure from DriveThruRPG has been forwarded to Mark for his efforts to the cause! THANK YOU!

Please support the game store spreading the word if you’d in the Racine, area! They are the lifeblood of our hobby!

The Sanctum
Info@TheSanctum.Games
(262) 664-4025

4615 Washington Ave.
Racine, WI 53405