THE CHECK IS OFF TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY! THANK YOU FOR OUR GREAT VICTORY!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2024, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, Gamehole Con, Results, Smite Cancer

Thank you all for you all for your support of the Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Gamehole Con 2024 Dark Tower event! We had to wait for a big donation to get through the red tape, however, we have obtained it and the check is on its way to the American Cancer Society! (See pictures below.) All, in all, we have a revised total of $4,167, which raises our total impact with ACS to $23,579.95 for the past 5 years! Thank you donors and sponsors for enabling us to give this aid to those in need!

I did want to make a very special call out to Bob Brinkman, who I failed to thank in my event wrap-up and I was mortified! (The post has been amended!) Bob took the time under a tight schedule to craft the stats for Jennell Jaquays favorite alter ego, Thanatar the Just, a red wyrm disguising herself as a human wizard to interact with the world of men! Thanatar was an advisor and aid during the Dark Tower adventure, and even a warrior in the final battle versus the evil lich Pnessutt in the Dark Tower.

Thank you, Bob for contributing this slice of awesome! We will be posting this content for everyone to use in their home games! Stay tuned for its release, we’d love to have this material in your hands to have the spirit of Jennell within your games!

And don’t forget! The second week of December means the Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet! Please join us on Twitch Channel DCC Mayhem for 18 hours of your favorite systems spiced up with suggestions from your donations: DCC, MCC, Castles & Crusades, Umerica Survival Guide, Weird Frontiers and a heaping helping of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland for dessert! It will be EPIC, and we’d love to see you there! We’ll be wrapping up the festivities with our own brand of late-night horror with Luau Lou and Brian Shutter with a double feature starting with Insanti Claws and the Final Admission Theater and Half-Price Oyster Bar!

Join us for the fun and donate to help others that need of your support through the American Cancer Society! Happy Holidays!

TJSMCftC 2023: ETHERMEET MEMORIAL TOKENS ARE ON THE WAY!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2023, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, Ethermeet, Memorial, Prize, token

Hello all!  Greetings from the Crawl staff and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  We have finally gotten everything together and The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure 2023: Ethermeet Memorial Tokens are in the mail!  Back in December, we raised $3,291 for the American Cancer Society with your help, and this is a beautiful token of our appreciation, magnificently adorned with Doug Kovacs Xcrawl Classics artwork to add to your luck pool! Thank you for your support for this incredible cause!

The tokens were sent out late yesterday, and I apologize for the poor timing with Gary Con, but time was running short and we wanted to get these into your hands!  Expect to see them in the next few days!

We will be kicking off our planning for the next Gamehole Con mega-funnel in the near future, and we are stoked to bring it to you!  You can look forward to updates as we get the plans in place – we are stoked to bring you the next quest for Good!

Additionally, please check out Purple Pirate Games’ latest Kickstarter, the 3rd level MCC adventure Installation 665 by Julian Bernick of Goodman Games and Spellburn notoriety. Julian is a very welcome presence at our Crawl for the Cure events giving his brand of frantic and hardcore adventure to our players and viewers! On top of that, the adventure contains additional contributions from other veteran authors Stephen Newton and Daniel Bishop, and a droolful mass of artwork is brought to you in this chunky tome! Check out the link and be drawn in by the secrets of Terra AD, you will not be disappointed! 

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/purplepirategames/installation-665

Additionally, please consider supporting our other incredible sponsors of our events from our website. All of the awesome content everyone receives from their donations is fully provided by these stand-up, magnificent creators! Something else you will not regret. 

https://oursponsors-em.crawlforthecure.net/

Have an incredible St. Patrick’s Day, and thank you all again for your support of The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure, we are looking forward to the great Good we spread in the future! I hope to see folks at Gary Con, and hope to roll some dice with you!

Thanks!
Cory Welch and Staff
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure

CRAWLERS CAME… CRAWLERS CONQUERED… HEROES BROUGHT HOPE TO THOSE NEED! THANK YOU FOR A VERY SUCCESSFUL JSMCftC 2023: ETHERMEET!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2023, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, DCC Mayhem, donations, Ethermeet, Results, Smite Cancer

– First, an apology. Cory took some time for some personal and professional tasks and commitments after Ethermeet, and this wrap-up of the event is terribly late. I hope you can forgive me for taking this time, as there were some things that needed to be handled over the period. All rewards minus the Memorial Token should have been met by this time, and you will set your eyes upon that little beauty VERY soon! Thank you for your understanding, and I sincerely apologize for needing the extended time to take care of these tasks.

On Saturday, December 9th, 2023, six Judges of incredible merit ran games from 7 AM CST until 3 AM CST with amazing players in the best roleplaying systems around to dazzle and entertain our most revered patrons which enabled us to earn $3,291 for the American Cancer Society! Our 16 generous sponsors gave our donors 20 hours worth of prizes and major prizes to our top donors! Everyone came together on December 9th to give aid to those fighting this harrowing disease! See your impact with The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure over the last 4 years of adventure and heroic contribution, Crawlers! We should breach $20,000 at our next event! THANK YOU, ALL, FOR YOUR TREMENDOUS SUPPORT!

Thank you, Judges for your exciting hours of adventure to collect for the cause!

  • Castle Keeper Chuck Cumbow of Troll Lord Games: Journey to White Plume Mountain (Castles & Crusades)
  • Judge Edwin Nagy of Frog God Games: The Stone Ado (Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition)
  • Judge Brendan LaSalle of Goodman Games: Dungeon City Limits (XCrawl Classics)
  • Judge Julian Bernick, Goodman Games Author: The Band from Utopia (Umerican Survival Guide)
  • Judge Luau Lou Hoefer of Dandyline Games: The Technomancer of Candy Mountain (Mutant Crawl Classics)
  • Neon Lord Brian Shutter of Super Savage Systems: Cyber Vamps from Beyond the Grave (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland)

Thank you for giving your time and talents for the cause, and a special thank you to our “late show” participants, Luau Lou Hoefer and Brian Shutter for running into the wee hours of the morning Eastern Time Sunday to keep those donations flowing! Your commitment to the cause is immensely appreciated and bolstered our cause into the night!

Please visit the sites of all of our sponsors and support their superior collections of adventure products! You will not be disappointed!

All the prizes for your generosity should have been mostly completed before the 1st of the year, with a mistaken delayed send fixed recently and the upcoming release of Dandyline’s Unnatural Selections, Vol. 2 product coming soon! Our sponsors brought it to Ethermeet with the awesome products and donors should be wading goblin deep in adventure and excitement through their works!

We have completed the design of The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure 2023: Ethermeet Memorial Token featuring a jaw-dropping XCrawl Classics creation by Doug Kovacs. We are very pleased to present it to you now:

These are on order, and we will get these to you as soon as possible so you can use yours for your Luck or stunning marker token!

“Crawling for the prize, TOGETHER!”

BUT WAIT, THERE IS MORE! We have more to come in the year to come before Gamehole Con! I’m going to put together some Sponsor Delves showcasing the products of our incredible donors. Also, I will not fail in getting more of the past Ethermeet sessions back on to Twitch and YouTube! With 20 hours of play this year, I can’t guarantee I’ll get through all the past three years by the next Crawl, but I will attempt this Mighty Deed if I can.

We hope to have an incredible announcement for our community in the near future relating to the Crawl for the Cure, and we will be working this year for another awesome event at Gamehole Con XI!

We are so proud of this generous community that has come together for the cause! Thank you for enabling all of us to make a difference for those in need!

YOUR JERRY STEFEK MEMORIAL CRAWL FOR THE CURE DONATION MATTERS!

Posted on by Hazel Welch in ACS, allocations, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, donations, impact, Smite Cancer

The American Cancer Society is a leading cancer-fighting organization with a vision to end ​cancer as we know it, for everyone.

The ACS is improving the lives of people with cancer and their families as the only organization ​combating cancer through advocacy, research, and patient support to ensure that everyone ​has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

A donation of ANY AMOUNT helps improve the lives of cancer patients and ​their families. Here are some examples of how impactful your donation can be!

  • $10 – Helps people find hope and support online through the Cancer Survivors Network
  • $25 – Helps people facing breast cancer connect with trained survivors through the Reach ​To Recovery® program
  • $30 – Assists 1 person find free answers and much-needed emotional support through ​the 24/7 helpline
  • $50 – Provides one free ride to treatment through the Road To Recovery® program
  • $65 – Provides 1 free night’s stay at a Hope Lodge® community for people with cancer ​and their caregivers.
  • $500 – Could help provide ten free rides to treatment
  • $1,200 – Affords free lodging for a guest’s entire stay in a Hope Lodge community

Please join us for Ethermeet and donate to support this cause!

AMPLIFY DONATION COMPETITION!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2023, ACS, American Cancer Society, Amplify, Crawl for the Cure, donations, Ethermeet, Smite Cancer, Tiltify


Interest and curiosity rewarded!


Thanks for coming to check out The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2023 and for extending your generosity to donate to the American Cancer Society!  Whether you’re a first-time viewer or a returning fan, we’d love it if you would AMPLIFY your impact by sharing with people you know and inviting them to join in.

This year you can AMPLIFY our reach, and your impact, to do more Good for the American Cancer Society.  On our Tiltify donation page, you can AMPLIFY the campaign by creating your own AMPLIFY link that you can use to share through social media.  The email you provide when creating the link will allow us to track the donations it generates.  Encourage people you know to check out and enjoy Ethermeet and make their own year-end donations to the ACS.  For some friendly competition and to thank you, we’ll award a $50 Amazon gift card to the person whose AMPLIFY link generates the highest donation total by the end of the stream! From the campaign link, press the “Generate amplify link” button and share your link to your social media to start the competition!  Let’s hit that $5,000 goal for the ACS! We’ll contact the winner by e-mail with your prize!

Thank you for your extended support of The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet!

ANNOUNCING: ETHERMEET 2023 FLGS GRASSROOTS ADVERTISING CONTEST!

Posted on by Steve in 2023, ACS, Advertising, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, DriveThruRPG, Ethermeet, FLGS, Grassroots, Prize

We are excited once again to announce a Grassroots Advertising Flyer Campaign for The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2023 to further bolster the cause, spread the word and give our Friendly Local Games Stores some recognition! 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 Friday, December 8th, 2023, print 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/X or Instagram feed, (Twitter/X: @crawlforthecure, Instagram: jerryscrawlforthecure) 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/X or Instagram to get your full information after the drawing for you to collect your loot!

We think this is a great way to get our word out in game stores, spread it on Twitter/X or Instagram (or both!) 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!

https://ethermeet.crawlforthecure.net

Twitter/X: @crawlforthecure
Instagram: jerryscrawlforthecure

THE FUNDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY!

Posted on by caddy1071 in 2023, ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, donations, Gamehole Con, impact, Results, Smite Cancer, Thank You

Hello all! Sorry to have been late on an update with this! The check was actually sent last Monday via Certified Mail and arrived on Thursday the 9th of November! Your efforts have given the American Cancer Society $5,000 more capital to use for research, education and aid for those stricken with cancer and their loved ones; THANK YOU for your incredible support in making things better for those in need! Your Mighty Deeds have triumphed!

Most prizes should have been supplied, but there are a few we are still working on with e-mail tag. If you are having any issues with prizes, please let us know. We will be first to admit that with the overwhelming support we were given for the event, our minds were reeling trying to get everybody their due. Please write jerryscrawlforthecure@gmail.com if you think there have been any issues with your raffle rewards.

THANK YOU, to all of our incredible sponsors for their EXTREME generosity in giving our donors really awesome items for their charitable donations! I will be the broken record – this community is amazing with a huge heart and determination to help those in need! Please visit our sponsors for your gaming and gift-giving needs!

Thank you very much to Alex Kammer and Josh Hoyt of Gamehole Con for always being supportive of the wild ride we have preparing for the Crawl for the Cure events! We appreciate their willingness to help our little crew try to do great things for the community! Thanks for giving our efforts and dreams a home!

Don’t forget, The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2023 is just around the corner! We’ll be hosting it on Twitch channel DCC Mayhem on Saturday December 9th, 2023 from 7 AM CST until 3 AM CST Sunday to give our West Coast supporters some more fun time! Stay tuned – we’ll get this launched soon!

Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday, and we hope to see you at ETHERMEET!

Sincerely,
Cory Welch and Staff
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure

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!

QUICK POST – UNBELIEVABLE SUCCESS AT THE JERRY STEFEK MEMORIAL CRAWL FOR THE CURE GAMEHOLE: TAKE BACK TEGEL MANOR!

Posted on by caddy1071 in ACS, American Cancer Society, Crawl for the Cure, Prize

Hello all! Just a quick note – we apologize for being a bit silent – we’re honestly pretty wiped out! We had an unbelievable showing with people playing constantly throughout the day to give a reckoning to the Rumps of Tegel Manor and raise an incredible amount of money for the American Cancer Society! We don’t have all the sources pulled together yet for totals, but we can let you know it is amazingly well over $4,000 – we are blown away from this incredible showing of support from players and vendors! THANK YOU, for helping us bring Good to those in need!

We will be going to the Atrium very soon to give out the physical prizes – we apologize for the delay.

Thank you, all!

Sincerely,

Cory Welch and Staff
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure