THE JERRY STEFEK MEMORIAL CRAWL FOR THE CURE – GAMEHOLE CON!
…POWERED BY DUNGEON CRAWL CLASSICS
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure returns to Gamehole Con 12 to run crawlers through the gauntlet of the North American Empire’s Extreme Dungeon Crawl with our Xcrawl 4 the Cure event on Saturday, October 18, 2025.
We will run Brendan LaSalle’s gilded and deadly Xcrawl Classics (XCC) from Goodman Games for this year’s charity funnel!
Your 0-level candidates strive 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!
Your $10 ticket purchase for the event gives you crawl access access, and a memorial token to present to play throughout the day! Join us when you have time or make time on Saturday for this very special charity event! Multiple shifting teams will work together to defeat the challenges of Xcrawl within the demon realms of Mammon! Collect magic items through your deathsport winnings, garner supernatural support of fallen Xcrawl champions, and gain blessings of your patron goddesses, Circe and Fortuna, upon your glorious labor of returning Xcrawl from Mammon’s clutches! ALL funds collected from the event in tickets and donations will be contributed to the benefit of the American Cancer Society. We are on track of raising $30,000 in our six years of fundraising! In these uncertain times, please rally with us to help cancer victims and those affected by their suffering. Help us expand the Good we can generate for those in need by contributing to this very special event in memory of our good friend Jerry Stefek!
And, of course, you can expect our incredible sponsors to provide hourly raffle prizes and end-of-event awesome prizes (to be updated!) to our players, and now raffle access for external donors for their donations, as well! Each player will receive a “floating ticket” they can use for any hour’s raffle, and non-players can now also buy-in for the $10 fee, receive a memorial token and join the hourly raffles! (The “floating ticket” will also be given, the same $3 minimum donation will apply per hour – but external donors are encouraged to influence the game!)
Donations will provide advantages to change the story and help you defeat the dark powers – the more donations generated, the more advantage characters are given in defeating the challenges of the Crawl!
Players will be provided with random 0-levels from our towers of fodder populated by the Purple Sorcerer Games party generator. There will be A LOT of character sheets on hand to drive Mammon and his demonic minions back to their hells! It will be an awesome event for Good to honor Jerry Stefek and his love of the hobby! Glory, fame and fantastic prizes for your Crawlers await!
SPeCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE cRAWL FOR THE CURE: XCRAWL FOR THE CURE AT GAMEHOLE CON 2025!
We’d like to announce some very special activities for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure. Thanks to everybody making these awesome things happen:
- Our good friend Aaron Koelman lost his battle with cancer in November of 2023, and he is greatly missed. However, Aaron will be with us in spirit at every Crawl for the future! We are overjoyed that Doug Kovacs’ portrait of Aaron’s Akaerrian Keenblade persona has been completed! Bridget, Aaron’s wife, will honor us by bringing the original to Gamehole Con 2025 for us all to admire! Thank you, Doug, for this wonderful gift to the community!
- We’ll once again be setting up a few memorials for our lost friends and fighting survivors this year:
- Our picture memorial of those who have passed this year in our community, “Adventurers’ Rest”, will return this year. If you have a lost gaming friend who passed in the last year and would like to honor them at the event, please contact us at jerryscrawlforthecure@gmail.com with a photo of your friend or loved one. We will do our best to place them in our memorial in Adventures’ Rest.
- Peter Garancis will return with “The Pillar of Strength” honoring those both who have 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! Thank you, Peter!
A vERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS!
Watch here for your sponsors and contributors for Gamehole Con 12! Here are our past contributors, rewarding you for your generosity to the American Cancer Society!
- 321Action RPG!
- Blind Visionary Publications
- Bill Walters
- Bridget Traut
- 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
- Mike Badolato
- 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 Games
- Super Savage Systems
- Thick Skull Adventures
- Troll Lord Games
- Wayward Studios
Check out the sponsors page (to be updated – it is currently 2024’s sponsors), and please consider supporting these incredible companies that have joined our campaign to spread contagious Good!
We hope to see you at the event so we can once again smite this affliction, aiding others in education and care if they are affected by cancer’s callous grip! Thank you for your support!
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Gamehole Con is a fun, live tournament event benefiting the battle for the treatments and cures for cancer and providing life-saving information for victims and all individuals for prevention and coping. Please join us at the extraordinary Gamehole Con event to Do Good in providing funding for this most worthy cause. Thank you!
