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!
Hi all! I just wanted to share with you the thank you from the American Cancer Society for our direct $1,500 contribution (a $300 donation was made on our behalf from another donor for the $1,800 total) for our Gamehole Con IX 2022 The Shambling Undead Charity Crawl! Your outstanding support enabled us to go far beyond our expectations for the event and make a difference in peoples’ lives! Thank you for enabling us to do this Good work for those in need in Jerry’s memory!
Please also take a minute to look over the ACS-provided lists of tangible effects your support has for those suffering and affected by cancer’s grasp! Every dollar you give helps those in need! It is great to see where those dollars are going to!
Hello all! I received an update this week from the Hope Lodge, an American Cancer Society community program that provides free lodging for patients and their caregivers while they receive treatment. It is a home-like atmosphere where patients have places to gather or find quiet, where they can find support from others and make emotional ties with others on the same path.
Last year we used our PayPal donations ($1,286.23, matched to $2,572.46) to support the Baltimore, MD Hope Lodge in expansion and renovation. They sent us a newsletter to remind us that our donation affected someone in need!
(Note: This year all payments will go through Tiltify – they do have PayPal as a donor option this year to support PayPal donors!)
Thank you so much for your support of The Jerry Stefek Crawl for the Cure, and we look forward to making a difference for others in need with your help!
Hello all! Our Grassroots Advertising Flyer Campaign for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2022 has not left dock.. But we are committed to the experiment and time is still left until the Wednesday, December 7th deadline! For those that spread the word about Ethermeet our awesome game store communities, we’ll raffle for a $100 DriveThru RPG gift certificate! Let’s just say at this point – you’re odds are very good! We want to do as much Good as possible, and we’d love to have your help and thank you for that aid!
The rules:
Between now and 9 PM CST Wednesday, December 7th, 2022, print off our PDF flyer (multiples appreciated!), and ask permission to post it in your local game store(s) to spread the word.
Take a picture of the posted flyer (details visible, please!) and an additional picture of the game store with its name and logo to thank them for their support!
Post these pictures and pertinent information about the game store alerting our Twitter feed, @crawlforthecure, and use the hashtag #jerryscrawl! Let’s give the brick-and-mortar some advertising! Each game store post gives you another chance in the drawing.
We’ll contact the winner through Twitter to get your full information after the drawing to collect your loot!
We think this is a great way to get our word out in game stores, spread it on Twitter and give our local retailers a bump for their support! Thank you for your support, and we wish you good hunting in obtaining this trove of adventure!
Stay tuned for plenty of more information coming up about the tremendous support and players we have for Ethermeet! I’ll soon be back from my conference and on the case! Thanks all!
Hello all! We are excited to announce that in order to further bolster the cause, spread the word and give our Friendly Local Games Stores some recognition, we’re sponsoring a Grassroots Advertising Flyer Campaign for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2022! We will hold a raffle for a $100 DriveThru RPG gift certificate for those that work with our awesome game store communities to spread the word about Ethermeet! We want to do as much Good as possible, and we’d love to have your help and thank you for that aid!
The rules:
Between now and 9 PM CST Wednesday, December 7th, 2022, print off our PDF flyer (multiples appreciated!), and ask permission to post it in your local game store(s) to spread the word.
Take a picture of the posted flyer (details visible, please!) and an additional picture of the game store with its name and logo to thank them for their support!
Post these pictures and pertinent information about the game store to our Twitter feed, @crawlforthecure with the hashtag #jerryscrawl – let’s give them some advertising! Each game store post gives you another chance in the drawing.
We’ll contact the winner through Twitter to get your full information after the drawing to collect your loot!
We think this is a great way to get our word out in game stores, spread it on Twitter and give our local retailers a bump for their support of the cause! Thank you for your support, and we wish you good hunting in obtaining this trove of adventure!
Hi all! We just had some exciting news of even more sponsors jumping in to support us in The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2022! 5 more publishers of incredible character have donated their amazing products to the raffles to reward you for your donations the American Cancer Society to advance our quest to $5,000!:
Black Blade Publishing (Publisher of high-quality gaming material for first edition fantasy role-playing game fans and enthusiasts of the hobby’s earliest incarnations!)
Pacesetter Games (Pacesetter Games has been producing new and old school adventures and supplements since 2008!)
3,2,1…Action! Games (A new RPG ruleset where the focus is always on fun and story > physics.)
Please consider checking out all our sponsors’ sites for your Black Friday needs to support them for their awesome contributions to our cause!
We also have some very exciting player lists in the works, and watch for an upcoming announcement to help us spread the word with some sweet loot in it for you! You’ll want to join us for this premiere event, Saturday the 10th, 2022 from 8 AM CST until Midnight on the Twitch channel DCC Mayhem. We will raise funds for Good in Jerry Stefek’s memory, and make lives better! Thank you all for the incredible support for the cause, and from all of us at The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure, we wish you a joyous and healthy Thanksgiving!
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2022 is winding up and we are full speed ahead to doing more Good for the American Cancer Society with your help! We will run the event on Saturday the 10th, 2022 from 8 AM CST until Midnight collecting donations in Jerry Stefek’s memory for this great cause! Through your support last year, we were able to raise over $3,100 for the American Cancer Society and we are going to set a goal of $5,000 this year to challenge our community. Please tell all your friends about this awesome RPG entertainment event!
The memorial play-a-thon is in memory of Jerry Stefek, a gamer, father, and re-enactor, who was lost to aggressive lymphoma in 2018. ALL proceeds will be given to cancer research and patient assistance through the American Cancer Society! Join us on December 10th, 2022, on the Twitch channel DCC Mayhem, and use your donation dollars to make our goal a reality!
We will have incredible Judges running games for your entertainment: Edwin Nagy of Frog God Games running a Frog God Holiday Module with DCC Rules, Chuck Cumbow of Troll Lord Games running Castles & Crusades, Julian Bernick running Gonzo Post-Apocalyptic Umerica with author Reid San Filippo playing at his table, and Luau Lou Hoefer running Mutant Crawl Classics with a host of Goodman streamers – it will be a day of adventure to remember! You can see the game and raffle schedule (raffle info to be added closer to the event).
The sponsors list for the event have our tried and true stalwarts as well as new members of the OSR community raring to support us in our crusade! Expect to have awesome products and product gift certificates from our most generous sponsors (and more to come as details are worked out!):
Goodman Games (DCC, MCC, XCC, Fifth Edition Fantasy)
Frog God Games (New and Old School Adventure Modules and Supplements)
Troll Lord Games (Castles & Crusades, Amazing Adventures, 5th Edition Modules)
Shield of Faith Studios (Umerica Post-Apocalyptic DCC-Compatible RPG)
Dandyline Games (Mutant Crawl Classics Adventures, The Dare Luck Club RPG and DLC Adventures )
Planet X Games (Indie publisher of 5E, DCC and OSR modules and zines)
Noble Knight Games (Purveyor of out-of-print RPGs, Board Games, War Games, Collectible Card Games, Miniatures and all things game-related.)
Tim Sattley Gaming (TSG) (MCC Modules)
Get Haunted Industries (The illustrious Joey Royale! Weird rpg publisher and streamer.)
Studio 9 Games (Board games, Card Games and DCC/MCC Modules and Supplements)
Hobbs and Friends (OSR Tabletop RPG podcaster and zine publisher)
and stay tuned for more!!!
Your donations 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!
In appreciation of your efforts, all donations over $4 will receive not only the current memorial Ethermeet 2022 token (to be designed!), but also a Umerica Luck token compliments of Shield of Faith Studios, sent straight to your door! Let your Good Karma be your Fleeting Luck!
We hope to see you in the Wastelands on Saturday, December 10th to join the fun! Please help us support victims afflicted with this horrible disease with your donations while making memories at the table! Thank you for your support!
