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ArvCon 2025 plays TTRPGs to fight cancer this weekend!

Streamer Arvan Eleron is excited to announce the 11th annual ArvCon charity marathon, raising money for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation during the 4-day Memorial weekend! The holiday will be filled with 6 tabletop role-playing games including 20 participants! Watch and donate!

Trish E. Matson

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ArvCon 2025 plays TTRPGs to fight cancer this weekend!
Day 4 of ArvCon has the highlight of three Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation scientists playing a TTRPG together! Starting at 3 p.m. on Monday, May 26, Memorial Day, Drs. Sangwoo (Steven) Park (second from left), Brendan Floyd, and Catherine Triandafillou will be GMed in a one-shot of the new TTRPG, Daggerheart, by one of the game’s designers, Michael R. Underwood (left)! DRCRF is the beneficiary of this weekend's ArvCon charity fundraiser.
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Twitch and YouTube streamer ArvanEleron is excited to announce the 11th annual ArvCon charity marathon, raising money for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation during the 4-day Memorial weekend! The holiday will be filled with 6 tabletop Role-Playing Games including 20 participants ready to roleplay their hearts out! There will also be an interview with DRCRF scientists, who will later play in a Daggerheart one-shot — the premiere of the new TTRPG on Arvan’s channel, GMed by one of the game’s designers! Spread the word, watch, and contribute if you can! Viewers will be eligible for random drawings to give away books, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, TTRPG sourcebooks (print and digital), boardgames, e-game codes, and more!

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ArvCon kicks off Friday, May 23, at 9 p.m. EDT with a D&D one-shot game. Zac Clay GMs Rem Alternis, Greg Wilson, KP Upadhyayula and Indy.

Day 1: ArvCon kicks off Friday, May 23, at 9 p.m. EDT with Zac Clay GMing Rem Alternis, Arvan Eleron, KP Upadhyalula, and indy. Zac recently GMed a Humblewood one-shot for Critical Role! On Friday, the Arvocalists will play a D&D one-shot.

Day 2 of ArvCon will be BUSY! It kicks off at noon Saturday, May 24, with Arvan Eleron interviewing three Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation scientists, Drs. Sangwoo (Steven) Park, Brendan Floyd, and Catherine Triandafillou. Check back Monday to see this trio playing a TTRPG!

The ArvCon charity marathon continues Saturday at 1 p.m. EDT with a continuation of a D&D 5e campaign, The Ghosts of Saltmarsh, with a crew of players from the GOGcom community.

At 1 p.m. EDT Saturday, Arvan will GM the By the Dice Roll crew (from Twitch’s GOGcom channel) of Piran Jade, Inanda, DarkSaber2, Wholesome Horror Gaming, Undeveloped Briws, and Flaose as they move into the endgame of their D&D 5e Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign!

Saturday's second TTRPG for ArvCon, at 5 p.m. EDT, jumps into an Expedition from the Mysterious Peaks campaign, which combines D&D with EsperGenesis. Arvan Eleron (top left, clockwise) GMs Rhiannon Held, Toiya Kristen Finley, Zac Clay, and LaShawn M. Wanak.

At 5 p.m. EDT Saturday, Arvan Eleron will GM Rhiannon Held, Toiya Kristen Finley, Zac Clay, and LaShawn M. Wanak in their continuing campaign of Expedition from the Mysterious Peaks, a TTRPG campaign that combines D&D fantasy with EsperGenesis psionic technology!

At 8:15 p.m. EDT Saturday, the multitalented musician and Twitch streamer @indy. will return for a concert! 

The last Saturday game for the ArvCon fundraiser, at 9:30 p.m. May 24, will be a session of the Waterdeep--Dragon Heist! campaign GMed by ShadowedMage (top left, clockwise) and played by Jeoi Gawain Lin, Oh My God a Truck, Drew the Damager, and T1ltedgaming.

At 9:30 p.m. EDT Saturday, ShadowedMage will GM Jeoi Gawain Lin, Oh My God a Truck, Drew the Damager, and T1ltedgaming in their rollicking D&D 5e campaign of Waterdeep—Dragon Heist! They’ll play for around 3 hours.

Sunday's sole event for the ArvCon charity fundraiser is a marathon game in the Eberron: Oracle of War campaign, from noon to 8 p.m. EDT. Arvan Eleron (top left, clockwise) GMs Marie Bilodeau, Jennifer Brozek, John Helfers, Brandon O’Brien, and Trendane.

Day 3 of ArvCon will consist of one marathon game! From noon to 8 p.m. EDT, Sunday, May 25, Arvan Eleron will GM Marie Bilodeau, Jennifer Brozek, John Helfers, Brandon O’Brien, and Trendane in their season finale of the steampunk D&D 5e campaign of Eberron: Oracle of War!

Starting at 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, Michael R. Underwood (left), one of the designers of the new Daggerheart TTRPG, will GM three Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation scientists, Drs. Sangwoo (Steven) Park, Brendan Floyd, and Catherine Triandafillou in a one-shot! This will be the game's premiere on Arvan Eleron's channels.

Day 4 of ArvCon has the highlight of the three Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation scientists (interviewed Saturday) returning to play a TTRPG together! Starting at 3 p.m. on Monday, May 26, Memorial Day, Drs. Sangwoo (Steven) Park, Brendan Floyd, and Catherine Triandafillou will be GMed in a one-shot of the new TTRPG, Daggerheart, by one of the game’s designers, Michael R. Underwood! It’ll be the game’s premiere on Arvan Eleron’s channel.

Finally, around 6:15 p.m. EDT Monday, Arvan Eleron will announce whether ArvCon reached its fundraising goal, along with naming the winners of the grand prizes for top donors, plus which crew of players won the honor of raising the most money for the DRCRF during their particular game.

Once ArvCon begins, viewers will be able to donate to the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation via https://tiltify.com/@arvaneleron/arvcon2025 — thanks!

Top donors will be eligible to earn gorgeous metal-print art photos, and a package of games and other items. Sponsors include FatBot Games, Tin Man Games, Nomad Games, Harebrained Schemes, GOGcom, Free League Publishing, Catalyst Game Labs, Alligator Alley, Atthis Arts, and Arvan Eleron himself. 

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