Jennell Jaquays (born Paul Jaquays, October 14, 1956) is an American
game designer
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...
,
video game artist
Game art design is a subset of game development involving the process of creating the artistic aspects for video games. Video game art design begins in the pre-production phase of creating a video game. Video game artists are visual artists inv ...
, and illustrator of
tabletop role-playing game
A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TRPG or TTRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech. Participa ...
s (RPGs).
Her notable works include the ''
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules ...
'' modules ''
Dark Tower'' and ''
Caverns of Thracia
''The Caverns of Thracia'' is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1979. Written by Jennell Jaquays, it was compatible with ''Dungeons & Dragons''. A revised edition—compatible with ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 3.5 ...
'' for
Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leadin ...
; the development and design of conversions on games such as ''
Pac-Man
originally called ''Puck Man'' in Japan, is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America. Th ...
'' and ''
Donkey Kong
is a video game franchise created by Shigeru Miyamoto and owned by Nintendo. It follows the adventures of a gorilla named Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong and his clan of other Ape, apes and monkeys. The franchise primarily consists of plat ...
'' for
Coleco
Coleco Industries, Inc. was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as The Connecticut Leather Company. It was a successful toy company in the 1980s, mass-producing versions of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game console ...
's
home arcade video game system; and more recent design work, including the ''
Age of Empires'' series, ''
Quake 2
''Quake II'' is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. It is the second installment of the Quake (series), ''Quake'' series, but not a direct sequel to ''Quake (video game), Quake''. The game ...
'', and ''
Quake III Arena
''Quake III Arena'' is a 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter developed by id Software. The third installment of the ''Quake'' series, ''Arena'' differs from previous games by excluding a story-based single-player mode and focusing prima ...
''. Some of her best known works as a
fantasy artist are the cover illustration for
TSR's ''
Dragon Mountain
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''
adventure
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.
Early life and education
Jennell Jaquays was born on October 14, 1956 in Michigan and grew up in Michigan and Indiana.
Jaquays graduated from Michigan's
Jackson County Western High School in 1974 and
Spring Arbor College in 1978 with a
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
in
Fine Art
In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...
.
Career
''The Dungeoneer'' and fantasy roleplaying
While still at college, Jaquays became interested in science-fiction and fantasy gaming and the nascent
role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...
industry through the pages of ''
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the la ...
''. Jaquays discovered ''
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules ...
'' in 1975 and formed the Fantastic Dungeoning Society with several friends at college including Mark Hendricks.
Together they decided to create a
fanzine
A fanzine (blend word, blend of ''fan (person), fan'' and ''magazine'' or ''-zine'') is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by fan (person), enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) ...
, which would provide adventures for other Game Masters.
TSR's
Tim Kask
Timothy James Kask (born January 14, 1949) is an American editor and writer in the role-playing game industry. Kask became interested in board games in his childhood, and later turned to miniatures wargames. While attending university after a stin ...
gave Jaquays a casual license to publish this fanzine, ''The Dungeoneer'', an amateur publication but one of the earliest RPG periodicals.
The first issue was published in the same month as ''
Dragon
A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as ...
'' #1 (June 1976).
The first issue was mainly drawn and written by Jaquays, with some contributions from other FDS members.
In all, FDS produced six issues of ''The Dungeoneer'' from 1976-1978.
Marketed as a "dungeonmaster's publication," the magazine was noteworthy for its pioneering approach to
pre-factored adventures, "F'Chelrak's Tomb" was published in June 1976, the same month as
Wee Warriors Wee Warriors Ltd. was a game company formed shortly after the birth of role-playing games (RPGs) in the mid-1970s to publish RPG accessories. It was notable for publishing the first stand-alone adventure for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing ...
' ''Palace of the Vampire Queen''. The publication has been an inspiration for many similarly-themed magazines in the United States and elsewhere.
In addition to these "honest efforts at quality contents to interest readers," Jaquays began submitting artwork to
TSR's in-house gaming magazine, ''
The Dragon'', in 1976. Jaquays' work appeared in the premiere issue of ''The Dragon'', and later contributions included the cover of issue #21.
Judges Guild, later independent role-playing projects, and TSR
By late 1977, Jaquays was approaching graduation and needed to spend more time in the art studio, so FDS sold ''The Dungeoneer'' to Chuck Anshell of Anshell Miniatures.
Anshell soon came to work at
Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leadin ...
, and Jaquays ended up there too by October 1978, working with them for a year as an illustrator and adventure designer.
By late 1978 Judges Guild was a prolific provider of material and officially licensed products for TSR's ''
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules ...
'' (''D&D'') line.
Anshell retained a level of editorial control over ''The Dungeoneer'', one of Judges Guild's two gaming periodicals. Jaquays worked on two stand-alone
''D&D'' modules for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''
Dark Tower'' and ''
Caverns of Thracia
''The Caverns of Thracia'' is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1979. Written by Jennell Jaquays, it was compatible with ''Dungeons & Dragons''. A revised edition—compatible with ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 3.5 ...
'', which were completed before she left the company in October 1979. She provided a variety of content on a freelance basis thereafter, particularly to ''The Dungeoneer''.
Jaquays and
Rudy Kraft authored ''Adventures Beyond the Pass'' for Judges Guild, which they never published; instead
Greg Stafford
Francis Gregory Stafford (February 9, 1948 – October 10, 2018), usually known as Greg Stafford, was an American game designer, publisher, and practitioner of shamanism.
Stafford is most famous as the creator of the fantasy world of Glorantha ...
liked it enough that
Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon'' ...
published it as ''
Griffin Mountain
''Griffin Mountain'' is a tabletop role-playing game supplement for ''RuneQuest'', written by Rudy Kraft, Jennell Jaquays, and Greg Stafford, and published by Chaosium in 1981. ''Griffin Mountain'' is a wilderness campaign setting for the ''Rune ...
'' (1981).
The MicroGame ''
Chitin: I'' (1978) by
Metagaming Concepts
Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard Thompson, who designed the company's first game, ''Stellar Conquest''. The company also invente ...
featured art by Jaquays.
Jaquays,
Denis Loubet
Denis Loubet is an artist who has worked on several pen-and-paper role-playing games and video games, including the MMORPG ''Ashen Empires''.
Career
Loubet designed a set of miniatures called '' Cardboard Heroes'' (1980), a set of full-color card ...
, and
Jeff Dee
Jeff Dee is an American artist and game designer. He was the youngest artist in the history of pioneering role-playing game company TSR when he began his work at the age of eighteen. He also designed the ''Villains and Vigilantes'' superhero gam ...
produced ''
Cardboard Heroes'' in the early 1980s for
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''.
History
Founded in 1980, six years after the cr ...
.
Jaquays expanded her career to include video game design in the early 1980s, but continued to work as a freelancer for various table-top game publishers including TSR,
Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon'' ...
,
West End Games
West End Games (WEG) was a company that made Board game, board, Role-playing game, role-playing, and wargaming, war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product line ...
,
Flying Buffalo
Flying Buffalo Inc. (FBI) is a game company with a line of role playing games, card games, and other gaming materials. The company's founder, Rick Loomis, began game publishing with ''Nuclear Destruction'', a play-by-mail game which started the pr ...
, and
Iron Crown Enterprises
Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a publishing company that has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980. Many of ICE's better-known products were related to J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, but the ''Ro ...
. She produced illustrations for
Game Designers' Workshop
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers.
History
Game Designers' Workshop was originally established June 22, 1973. The founding m ...
(GDW), most notably creating all the starship illustrations in ''
Traveller Supplement 9: Fighting Ships''. A number of these became the basis for starship models from
Ad Astra Games
''Attack Vector: Tactical (AV:T)'' is a space combat wargame published by Ad Astra Games. The game is consciously designed to model comparatively realistic space combat and eschew common conventions of space warfare. Attack Vector: Tactical is set ...
and the deckplans found in
Mongoose ''Traveller'' ''Supplement 3 - Fighting Ships''.
From 1986 to 1993, she did freelance work while running a design studio.
Jaquays prepared a series of character-creation supplements called ''Central Casting'' (1988-1991) for
Flying Buffalo
Flying Buffalo Inc. (FBI) is a game company with a line of role playing games, card games, and other gaming materials. The company's founder, Rick Loomis, began game publishing with ''Nuclear Destruction'', a play-by-mail game which started the pr ...
, which were published by
Task Force Games
Task Force Games was a game company started in 1979 by Allen Eldridge and Stephen V. Cole. TFG published many games, most notably including both '' Star Fleet Battles'' (currently published by the original designers, Amarillo Design Bureau) a ...
.
Jaquays also prepared three more City Books (1990-1994) out of house for Flying Buffalo.
From 1993 to 1997, she returned to full-time employment in the table-top gaming industry as an illustrator for TSR, including a six-month period as Director of Graphics. She left TSR just before their takeover by
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and List of science fiction themes, science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for ga ...
. During this time, she played an active role in the creation of the ''
Dragon Dice
''Dragon Dice'' is a collectible dice game originally made by TSR, Inc., and is produced today by SFR, Inc. It is one of only a handful of collectible dice games produced in the early 1990s. The races and monsters in ''Dragon Dice'' were creat ...
'' game, both as cover artist and icon designer.
Freelance artwork
In addition to many gaming artwork contributions (including artwork spread over two decades for TSR's first-line periodicals, ''Dragon'' and ''
Dungeon
A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette (from ...
'') she worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the ''
Jackson Citizen Patriot
''Jackson Citizen Patriot'' is a daily newspaper published in Jackson, Michigan.
Since 2012, the ''Citizen Patriot'' has been published at AnnArbor.com
''AnnArbor.com'' was an online newspaper that covered local news of Ann Arbor, Michigan, ...
'' in 1980. During the late 1980s, Jaquays was a regular interior artist for ''
Amazing Stories
''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances i ...
'', and contributed one cover for that publication.
Video game industry
Michael A. Stackpole worked for
Coleco
Coleco Industries, Inc. was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as The Connecticut Leather Company. It was a successful toy company in the 1980s, mass-producing versions of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game console ...
from 1980-1981 and brought friend and fellow RPG designer Jaquays over to Coleco.
After leaving Judges Guild, Jaquays worked for Coleco, first in a freelance capacity from 1980, then as a full-time employee from 1981 to 1985. She developed and designed arcade conversions of many well-known titles such as ''
Pac-Man
originally called ''Puck Man'' in Japan, is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America. Th ...
'' and ''
Donkey Kong
is a video game franchise created by Shigeru Miyamoto and owned by Nintendo. It follows the adventures of a gorilla named Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong and his clan of other Ape, apes and monkeys. The franchise primarily consists of plat ...
'' for their
home arcade video game system. Jaquays eventually became director of game design.
Jaquays assembled one of the first art and design studios for video game development at Coleco to make ColecoVision games.
During a freelance design studio period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she continued to be involved in the video game industry, with concept and design work for
Epyx
Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher active in the late 1970s and 1980s. The company was founded as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, originally using Epyx as a brand name for action-oriented games before rena ...
,
Interplay Entertainment
Interplay Entertainment Corp. is an American video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher based in Los Angeles. The company was founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by developers Brian Fargo, Jay Patel, Troy Worrell, and Rebecca ...
, and
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the d ...
.
From March 1997, Jaquays was employed as level designer for
id Software
id Software LLC () is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and ar ...
,
best known for their
Quake series of video games. She then moved to the Dallas-based
Ensemble Studios
Ensemble Studios was an American video game developer. It was founded by Tony Goodman in 1994 and incorporated the following year. It borrowed the name of Ensemble Corporation, a consulting firm founded by Goodman in 1990. It was acquired by M ...
, which had "become a haven for ex-id Software developers." She worked there from early 2002, with former tabletop and computer gaming contemporary
Sandy Petersen
Carl Sanford Joslyn "Sandy" Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is an American game designer. He worked at Chaosium, contributing to the development of ''RuneQuest'' and later creating the acclaimed and influential horror role-playing game ''Call ...
, until the company's closure in January 2009. Petersen had previously hired Jaquays to be a content designer at id Software.
In 2003 Jaquays co-founded
The Guildhall at SMU, a video game education program, located at the Plano campus of
Southern Methodist University
, mottoeng = "The truth will make you free"
, established =
, type = Private research university
, accreditation = SACS
, academic_affiliations =
, religious_affiliation = United Methodist Church
, president = R. Gerald Turner
, prov ...
(SMU) in
Dallas
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.
She helped create much of the program's original curriculum.
Jaquays continues as an advisor to The Guildhall program.
As of October 2009, Jaquays was employed as a senior-level designer with the North American division of Iceland's
CCP Games
CCP hf., doing business as CCP Games, is an Icelandic video game developer based in Reykjavík. Novator Partners and General Catalyst had previously collectively owned a majority stake in the company, and in September 2018, CCP was acquired by ...
.
Jennell currently divides her creative energy between projects for design studio Dragongirl Studios, her ''Fifth Wall'' brand of game adventures and miniatures, and serving as the creative director for Olde Sküül, Inc.,
[ a digital game developer and publisher based in Seattle, Washington which she founded with three other veteran female developers in 2012.
]
Awards and honors
Jaquays' '' Dark Tower'' was nominated for the 1979 H.G. Wells award for Best Roleplaying Adventure. In November 2004, as part of the 30th anniversary celebration for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Dungeon'' magazine produced a list of the "thirty greatest D&D Adventures of All Time." ''Dark Tower'' was the only entry on the list not published by TSR. Jaquays was co-author and illustrator for Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon'' ...
's ''Griffin Mountain
''Griffin Mountain'' is a tabletop role-playing game supplement for ''RuneQuest'', written by Rudy Kraft, Jennell Jaquays, and Greg Stafford, and published by Chaosium in 1981. ''Griffin Mountain'' is a wilderness campaign setting for the ''Rune ...
'' ''RuneQuest
''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson (game designer), Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of ...
'' scenario. Set in Glorantha
Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford. It was first introduced in the board game '' White Bear and Red Moon'' (1975) by Chaosium and then in a number of other board, roleplaying and computer games, including ''RuneQuest'' and ''He ...
, this highly praised scenario was nominated for the 1981 H.G. Wells award. The reworked version, '' Griffin Island'', was nominated for the same award in 1986. Coleco's ''Wargames
''WarGames'' is a 1983 American science fiction techno-thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film, which stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy, follows Dav ...
'', for which Jaquays was co-designer of gameplay, won the 1984 Summer C.E.S. original software award. As a level designer for TSR's ''Castle Greyhawk
Castle Greyhawk is one of the central dungeon settings in the fictional ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying game. The Castle was originally developed by Gary Gygax, for his own campaign and later deta ...
'' module, Jaquays shared the 1989 Origins
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Gamer's Choice Award for Best Role-Playing Adventure.
Jaquays has been honored as one of the Top 50 Transgender Americans You Should Know by LGBTQ Nation
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, and a Trans 100 2015 Honoree.
Jennell Jaquays' contributions to the early video game industry are recognized on a collectable trading Card #2036. Jaquays is noted here as one of the women filmed for the documentary film "No Princess in the Castle." In 2017, she was honored as a Hall of Fame Inductee for the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design, as well as an Origins 2017 Guest of Honor.
Activism
As creative director for The Transgender Human Rights Institute in Seattle, Jennell Jaquays was involved in the petition to create " Leelah's Law," outlawing conversion therapy of LGBT youth. In response to the petition, in April 2015 President Barack Obama called for the banning of conversion therapy for minors.
Personal life
Jaquays has two children from her first marriage. Jaquays announced in December 2011 that she identifies as a lesbian
A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate n ...
and trans woman
A trans woman or a transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity, may experience gender dysphoria, and may transition; this process commonly includes hormone replacement therapy and so ...
. She resides in Seattle, Washington, with her wife Rebecca Heineman
Rebecca Ann Heineman is an American video game designer and programmer. Heineman was a founding member of video game companies Interplay Productions, Logicware, Contraband Entertainment, and Olde Sküül. She has been chief executive officer ...
.[
]
Works
;Partial bibliography of works in print
* ''The Dungeoneer'' (D&D fanzine
A fanzine (blend word, blend of ''fan (person), fan'' and ''magazine'' or ''-zine'') is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by fan (person), enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) ...
) (editor 1976–77; contributor 1976–79)
* '' Dark Tower'' (AD&D Scenario – Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leadin ...
:88) (1980; revised 2001, 2007)
* ''The Caverns of Thracia
''The Caverns of Thracia'' is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1979. Written by Jennell Jaquays, it was compatible with ''Dungeons & Dragons''. A revised edition—compatible with ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 3.5 ...
'' (D&D Scenario – Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leadin ...
:102) (1979; revised 2004)
* '' Legendary Duck Tower and Other Tales'' (Runequest
''RuneQuest'' (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson (game designer), Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of ...
Scenario – Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leadin ...
:220) (1980) (with Rudy Kraft)
* '' The Unknown Gods'' (D&D Sourcebook – Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leadin ...
:420) (1980) (co-author)
* ''Griffin Mountain
''Griffin Mountain'' is a tabletop role-playing game supplement for ''RuneQuest'', written by Rudy Kraft, Jennell Jaquays, and Greg Stafford, and published by Chaosium in 1981. ''Griffin Mountain'' is a wilderness campaign setting for the ''Rune ...
'' (Runequest Campaign Setting) (1981; revised and expanded 1986 as ''Griffin Island'') (with Rudy Kraft and Greg Stafford
Francis Gregory Stafford (February 9, 1948 – October 10, 2018), usually known as Greg Stafford, was an American game designer, publisher, and practitioner of shamanism.
Stafford is most famous as the creator of the fantasy world of Glorantha ...
)
* ''Cults of Terror
''Cults of Terror'' is a tabletop role-playing game supplement for ''RuneQuest'', originally published by Chaosium in 1981. The sourcebook details nine evil deities and the cults that worship them, for use in Greg Stafford's fantasy world of Glor ...
'' (Runequest Sourcebook) (1981) (co-author)
* ''The Enchanted Wood'' (DragonQuest
''Dragonquest'' is a science fantasy novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the sequel to ''Dragonflight'', set seven years later and the second book in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series. ''Dragonquest'' was first published ...
Module) (1981)
* ''Talons of Night
''Talons of Night'' is an Egyptian-themed adventure module for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, set in that game's Mystara campaign setting. TSR, Inc. published the module in 1987 for the ''D&D Master Set'' rules. It is pa ...
'' (D&D Module:M5) (1987)
* '' The Shattered Statue'' (AD&D/DragonQuest
''Dragonquest'' is a science fantasy novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the sequel to ''Dragonflight'', set seven years later and the second book in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series. ''Dragonquest'' was first published ...
Module:DQ1) (1987)
* ''Egg of the Phoenix
''Egg of the Phoenix'' is an adventure module published in 1987 for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game.
Plot summary
''Egg of the Phoenix'' is an adventure in which the player characters (PCs) investigate a slaver ...
'' (AD&D Module:I12) (1987) (with Frank Mentzer
Jacob Franklin Mentzer III is an American fantasy author and game designer who worked on early materials for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. He was an employee of TSR, Inc. from 1980 to 1986, spending part of that time ...
)
* ''Terror in Skytumble Tor'' (part of ''AD&D'' Module: I13) (1987)
* ''Castle Greyhawk
Castle Greyhawk is one of the central dungeon settings in the fictional ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying game. The Castle was originally developed by Gary Gygax, for his own campaign and later deta ...
'' (AD&D Module:WG7) (1988) (credited as one of the co-authors; wrote Level 4)
* ''The Savage Frontier
''The Savage Frontier'' (product code FR5) is an accessory for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting ''Forgotten Realms''. It describes the Savage Frontier (Forgotten Realms), Savage Frontier of Faerûn. The book was written by Jennell Ja ...
'' (AD&D Module:FR5) (1988)
* '' Central Casting: Heroes of Legend'' (Generic Sourcebook) (1988)
* ''Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide
''Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide'' is an accessory for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game.
Contents
The ''Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide'' is a supplement to the ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' for the ''Adv ...
'' (AD&D 2nd edition sourcebook:DMGR1) (1990)
* ''Citybook VI – Uptown'' (1992) (co-author)
* ''Shadows on the Borderland'' (Runequest Adventure) (1993) (co-author)
* '' Country Sites'' (1995) (cover artist)
;Partial list of video game credits
See also
* List of video game industry people
Below is a list of notable people who work or have worked in the video game industry.
The list is divided into different roles, but some people fit into more than one category. For example, Sid Meier is both a game designer and programmer. In ...
References
External links
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Jennell Jaquays
at MobyGames
MobyGames is a commercial website that catalogs information on video games and the people and companies behind them via crowdsourcing. This includes nearly 300,000 games for hundreds of platforms. The site is supported by banner ads and a small ...
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1956 births
American game designers
American speculative fiction artists
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Chaosium game designers
Dungeons & Dragons game designers
Fantasy artists
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Id Software people
LGBT people from Michigan
LGBT people from Washington (state)
Living people
Quake (series)
Role-playing game artists
Science fiction artists
Transgender artists
Transgender women
Video game artists
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