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!

THE NEON LORDS WILL NOT BE REFUSED!

Posted on by caddy1071 in Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland, RPG, Sponsor, sponsor delve, Super Savage Systems, unboxing

Hi all!  DCC Mayhem has returned to honor our Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure sponsor, Super Savage Systems with a LONG overdue unboxing of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland Total Carnage Edition Kickstarter!  Come and witness the bodacious bling of the Neon Lords: awesome artwork, enough throwback references to keep that spray tan glowing, fun period chachkies and mini-games around many corners!  Thank you, Brian Shutter for and AWESOME product of true Old School measure, and looking forward seeing more of this rad content in the future!

Look forward to more shamefully late Ethermeet content (aiming for 2021 sessions before the 2023 event!) and hopefully some other supporter feature recordings.  Note, I’m VERY rusty, and apologize for the tarnish – I think you’ll find it’s too awesome to not overlook this, though.

See the unboxing on your choice of:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1990236152

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MUdWU-Kt5o

Please join us for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Etheremeet on Saturday, December 9th, 2023 from 7 AM CST until Sunday, 3 AM CST for Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland and much, much more! Your donations to the cause influences play and raffles for sponsor products, hourly! ALL proceeds go to the American Cancer Society (https://cancer.org) through Tiltify. More details to come and will be updated as the time comes closer at https://ethermeet.crawlforthecure.net.

Thank you for your support!

TAKE BACK TEGEL MANOR! HAS PASSED, THE VILLAGERS HAVE RISEN TO PUSH BACK THE TIDE OF EVIL, AND THE MANOR HAS BEEN RUMP FAMILY MENACE HAS BEEN QUELLED…FOR NOW!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2023, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, donations, Gamehole Con, impact, Memorial, Results, Steve Strecker, Tegel Manor, Thank You

On Saturday, October 21st, 2023 at Gamehole Con X in Madison, WI, players came out in force to combat the plague of Rump family which imposed their evil machinations upon them at the Take Back Tegel Manor! event! Our 18 seats were filled most of the day (and sometimes with a line!) with players with a sense of adventure and giving, as we raised an amazing $5,000 in donations for the American Cancer Society! Our total impact from these events over the past 4 years is over $16,000!

A special thanks to everybody who made this possible: Our incredible sponsors (The Holidays are coming, everybody – please consider them!), our incredible Judge and support staff, and ALL the players and their generous donations pushing their Mighty Deeds to this level of Good for those in need! We are staggered by this success, and we will do our best to continue providing top-notch, fun and extraordinary events! Thank you!

The game was played as a full-octane, high-level haunted house with 0-level funnel characters… With a twist! Characters in the twilight, necrotic pocket dimension summoned by the Rumps for their evil plans could contact the souls of formerly defeated enemies, allowing them to come back as avatars of higher levels to fight the terrible family! However, the peons would have to discover these spirits by searching the Manor in their fragile, peasant forms, with much adventure and drama to be had! A wonderful time donating for survival and story led us to an incredible amount that we raised for the ACS!

WITNESS the Treasure Room and the Mighty Monster Donation by a single donor, which is worthy of the giant’s trophy, the Halbard of Broll from the Great Hall of Tegel Manor! The donor contributed $2,000 to the cause to help others! We are honored to accept this for others in need! Thank you!

We have received so many compliments about how much fun our players had, we cannot wait to get back next year with our next adventure! Our sponsors were so generous in their giving to our donating players, I cannot say enough: your donations will get you some pretty sweet loot as you play! Please mark a block to drop in – your deeds do not go unrewarded! Please take look at the INCREDIBLE prize line-up we gave to our players for this event! Thank you, sponsors, for your generosity!

Thank you, all, for your support and enthusiasm for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure events! We are honored to bring these to you in the memory of Jerry, and other friends and family members of the community who have gone on to their next adventure over the span of the years. A special farewell to Steve Strecker, good friend and gaming buddy of Michael Spredemann of 2 Old Guy Games. We lost Steve this year, and the pictured 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Ravenloft module, Neither Man Nor Beast was contributed from his collection to the event, to help those in need, in his memory. This community is incredible and we are proud to be able to enable your generosity for the aid of those less fortunate! Thank you, for all of your support!

Please look for us online the second weekend of December (the 9th), for Ethermeet 2023! We’ll have the same level of awesome gameplay you expect and we’ll get our sponsor list out in the near future so you know what to expect for your contributed treasure! It’s just around the corner and we look forward to seeing you there!