Jennell Jaquays

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Jennell Allyn Jaquays (born Paul Jaquays; October 14, 1956 – January 10, 2024) was an American game designer, video game artist, and illustrator of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs). Her works include the Dungeons & Dragons modules Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia for Judges Guild; the development and design of conversions on games such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for Coleco's home arcade video game system; and more recent design work, including the Age of Empires series, Quake II, and Quake III Arena. She painted the cover illustration for TSR's Dragon Mountain adventure. Raised and educated mostly in southern Michigan, Jaquays and friends were early adopters of the D&D game, starting a game club which published a role playing fandom newsletter The Dungeoneer, much of which was written and illustrated by Jaquays. By 1976, Jaquays was contributing to Dragon magazine while bringing the newsletter to Judges Guild. During the first twenty years of the table top role playing industry, Jaquays...

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