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!
