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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!

On Saturday, October 21st 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!

Check out our blog post for more details and great pics, but 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 to 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!

A special thanks to the crew at Gamehole – the core team was down to the wire and the Judges and support staff were there when I (Cory) could not be there to set up the event; the team took charge and created the awesome game we played for the day! I was not there for the whole thing, so forgive me if I forget any names, but a heartfelt and well-deserved thank you to:

Jim Meyers
Keith Nelson
Chris Zank
Gary Cunningham
Bill Walters
Peter Garancis and daughter Kylee (not on the crew, just awesome player volunteers!!!)

If you want to see the incredible donations from our sponsors, please look at the INCREDIBLE prize line-up we gave to our players – if you play, you are likely to win! Thank you, sponsors!

THE NEXT EPIC WILL MANIFEST AT GAMEHOLE CON X! TAKE BACK TEGEL MANOR MEGA-FUNNEL ON A 16 X 16-FOOT BATTLE MAP-SCALE MAP. MULTIPLE PARTIES, MEGA-MAP, MEGA-FUNNEL, MEGA-FUN!

The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure returns to Gamehole Con X to run something epic and unique for the Gamehole Community to conquer collectively on Saturday, October 21, 2023! Frog God Games is providing Jerry’s Crawl a 16 x 16-foot battlemap-scale map of Tegel Manor for a Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics mega-funnel of heroic proportions, Take Back Tegel Manor! The Rump legacy is seeping beyond the manor walls to Tegel Village, trapping them within its evil embrace. The villagers will rise to purge the malevolence before the Rumps claim the village residents as their own undead servants! We will track the clearing of the Rump scourge throughout the day and through your efforts we hope the Manor will be vanquished by the end of the event; only with your help can we bring this destiny!

Your $10 ticket purchase for the event gives you manor access, and a memorial token (with awesome original Doug Kovacs artwork!) at the event 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 parties will work together and be sent on missions throughout the Tegel Manor to crumble the foundations of the Rump legacy: collect magic items, garner supernatural support and patronage, and gain ethereal blessings upon the quest from your donations to the cause! ALL funds collected from the event in tickets and donations will be contributed to the benefit of the American Cancer Society. Our goal is to beat our 2022 total of $1,800 to help cancer victims and those affected by their suffering. Help us to 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 our players, and now 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 manor residents – the more donations generated, the more advantage characters are given in clearing the manor! Don’t forget the opportunity for the special raffles for Doug Kovac’s original artwork for the event and a shrink-wrapped 2nd Edition 1995 Ravenloft Module, Neither Man Nor Beast, provided in memory of the loss of a friend in our community, Steve Strecker. Each memorial token purchase gets a free entry into each of these raffles, and additional chances and be purchased. These raffles are open to the entire Con – tell your friends! See details here!

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 bring the Rumps to their final reckoning! It will be an awesome event for Good to honor Jerry Stefek and his love of the hobby! The Purging of Evil of Tegel Manor is at hand – join us for the triumph! We look forward to your contribution to the fate of Tegel Manor!

Check out the sponsors page 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!

The American Cancer Society

Jerry and Amanda at Civil War Re-Enactment

The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure 2019!

THE JERRY STEFEK MEMORIAL CRAWL FOR THE CURE – GAMEHOLE CON!

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!

A vERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS!