Jennell Jaquays (born Paul Jaquays, October 14, 1956) is an American

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, and illustrator of

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s (RPGs). Her notable works include the ''

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'' 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

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; the development and design of conversions on games such as ''

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'' and ''

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'' for

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's home arcade video game system; and more recent design work, including the '' Age of Empires'' series, ''

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'', and ''

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''. Some of her best known works as a fantasy artist are the cover illustration for TSR's ''

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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

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Career

''The Dungeoneer'' and fantasy roleplaying

While still at college, Jaquays became interested in science-fiction and fantasy gaming and the nascent

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industry through the pages of ''

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''. Jaquays discovered ''

'' in 1975 and formed the Fantastic Dungeoning Society with several friends at college including Mark Hendricks. Together they decided to create a

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, which would provide adventures for other Game Masters. TSR's

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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 ''

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'' #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

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' ''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

, 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 ''

'' (''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 ''

'', 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

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liked it enough that

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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

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featured art by Jaquays. Jaquays,

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, and

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produced '' Cardboard Heroes'' in the early 1980s for

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. 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,

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, and

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. She produced illustrations for

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(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

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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

, which were published by

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. 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

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. During this time, she played an active role in the creation of the ''

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'' 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 ''

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'') she worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the ''

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'' in 1980. During the late 1980s, Jaquays was a regular interior artist for ''

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'', and contributed one cover for that publication.

Video game industry

Michael A. Stackpole worked for

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 ''

'' and ''

'' 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

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, and

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. From March 1997, Jaquays was employed as level designer for

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, best known for their Quake series of video games. She then moved to the Dallas-based

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, which had "become a haven for ex-id Software developers." She worked there from early 2002, with former tabletop and computer gaming contemporary

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, 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

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(SMU) in

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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

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. 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

's ''

'' ''

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

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, 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 ''

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'', 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 ''

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'' module, Jaquays shared the 1989

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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

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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

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and

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. She resides in Seattle, Washington, with her wife

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Works

;Partial bibliography of works in print * ''The Dungeoneer'' (D&D

) (editor 1976–77; contributor 1976–79) * '' Dark Tower'' (AD&D Scenario –

: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 –

: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 –

:220) (1980) (with Rudy Kraft) * '' The Unknown Gods'' (D&D Sourcebook –

:420) (1980) (co-author) * ''

'' (Runequest Campaign Setting) (1981; revised and expanded 1986 as ''Griffin Island'') (with Rudy Kraft and

) * ''

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/

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

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) * ''Terror in Skytumble Tor'' (part of ''AD&D'' Module: I13) (1987) * ''

'' (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

References

External links

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Early life and education

Career

''The Dungeoneer'' and fantasy roleplaying

Judges Guild, later independent role-playing projects, and TSR

Freelance artwork

Video game industry

Awards and honors

Activism

Personal life

Works

See also

References

External links