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!

CRAWLERS CAME… CRAWLERS CONQUERED… HEROES BROUGHT HOPE TO THOSE NEED! THANK YOU FOR A VERY SUCCESSFUL JSMCftC 2023: ETHERMEET!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2023, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, DCC Mayhem, donations, Ethermeet, Results, Smite Cancer

– First, an apology. Cory took some time for some personal and professional tasks and commitments after Ethermeet, and this wrap-up of the event is terribly late. I hope you can forgive me for taking this time, as there were some things that needed to be handled over the period. All rewards minus the Memorial Token should have been met by this time, and you will set your eyes upon that little beauty VERY soon! Thank you for your understanding, and I sincerely apologize for needing the extended time to take care of these tasks.

On Saturday, December 9th, 2023, six Judges of incredible merit ran games from 7 AM CST until 3 AM CST with amazing players in the best roleplaying systems around to dazzle and entertain our most revered patrons which enabled us to earn $3,291 for the American Cancer Society! Our 16 generous sponsors gave our donors 20 hours worth of prizes and major prizes to our top donors! Everyone came together on December 9th to give aid to those fighting this harrowing disease! See your impact with The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure over the last 4 years of adventure and heroic contribution, Crawlers! We should breach $20,000 at our next event! THANK YOU, ALL, FOR YOUR TREMENDOUS SUPPORT!

Thank you, Judges for your exciting hours of adventure to collect for the cause!

  • Castle Keeper Chuck Cumbow of Troll Lord Games: Journey to White Plume Mountain (Castles & Crusades)
  • Judge Edwin Nagy of Frog God Games: The Stone Ado (Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition)
  • Judge Brendan LaSalle of Goodman Games: Dungeon City Limits (XCrawl Classics)
  • Judge Julian Bernick, Goodman Games Author: The Band from Utopia (Umerican Survival Guide)
  • Judge Luau Lou Hoefer of Dandyline Games: The Technomancer of Candy Mountain (Mutant Crawl Classics)
  • Neon Lord Brian Shutter of Super Savage Systems: Cyber Vamps from Beyond the Grave (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland)

Thank you for giving your time and talents for the cause, and a special thank you to our “late show” participants, Luau Lou Hoefer and Brian Shutter for running into the wee hours of the morning Eastern Time Sunday to keep those donations flowing! Your commitment to the cause is immensely appreciated and bolstered our cause into the night!

Please visit the sites of all of our sponsors and support their superior collections of adventure products! You will not be disappointed!

All the prizes for your generosity should have been mostly completed before the 1st of the year, with a mistaken delayed send fixed recently and the upcoming release of Dandyline’s Unnatural Selections, Vol. 2 product coming soon! Our sponsors brought it to Ethermeet with the awesome products and donors should be wading goblin deep in adventure and excitement through their works!

We have completed the design of The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure 2023: Ethermeet Memorial Token featuring a jaw-dropping XCrawl Classics creation by Doug Kovacs. We are very pleased to present it to you now:

These are on order, and we will get these to you as soon as possible so you can use yours for your Luck or stunning marker token!

“Crawling for the prize, TOGETHER!”

BUT WAIT, THERE IS MORE! We have more to come in the year to come before Gamehole Con! I’m going to put together some Sponsor Delves showcasing the products of our incredible donors. Also, I will not fail in getting more of the past Ethermeet sessions back on to Twitch and YouTube! With 20 hours of play this year, I can’t guarantee I’ll get through all the past three years by the next Crawl, but I will attempt this Mighty Deed if I can.

We hope to have an incredible announcement for our community in the near future relating to the Crawl for the Cure, and we will be working this year for another awesome event at Gamehole Con XI!

We are so proud of this generous community that has come together for the cause! Thank you for enabling all of us to make a difference for those in need!