Sad farewells to Jennell Jaquays, a pioneering artist, tabletop game writer and video game level designer who has left us at only 67 after a fight with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Jennell was a trailblazer in multiple industries where trans women are explicitly or implicitly unwelcome, particularly in the early days of Dungeons & Dragons, and as creative director for the Transgender Human Rights Institute in Seattle Jennell was tireless in the fight to outlaw conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youth in the US.
If you play role-playing games, your favorite game was doubtlessly inspired by Jennell's Dark Tower and/or Caverns of Thracia. If you play video games she probably worked on your favorite game (or a game that inspired it). And as a person she was brilliant, kind-hearted, joyful, and utterly fearless.
May her memory be a blessing.
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