Jennell Jaquays

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jennell Jaquays
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Oct 14, 1956(1956-10-14)
Age	68
Birthplace	Michigan
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jennell Jaquays Biography

Jennell Jaquays is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on October 14, 1956 in Michigan, United States. Jennell Jaquays was born on October 14, 1956 in Michigan, named “Paul Jaquays”, 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 in Fine Art.

The first issue was published in the same month as Dragon #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’ Palace of the Vampire Queen. The publication has been an inspiration for many similarly-themed magazines in the United States and elsewhere.

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’s Griffin Mountain RuneQuest scenario. Set in Glorantha, 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, 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 module, Jaquays shared the 1989 Origins Gamer’s Choice Award for Best Role- Playing Adventure.

Michael A. Stackpole worked for Coleco 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 and Donkey Kong 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, Interplay Entertainment, and Electronic Arts.

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.

Jennell Jaquays Net Worth

Jennell Jaquays is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jennell Jaquays 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jennell Jaquays, formerly Paul Jaquays (born October 14, 1956), is an American game designer and artist of table-top role-playing games (RPGs) and video games. Her notable 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 2, and Quake III Arena. Some of her best known works as a fantasy artist are the cover illustration for TSR’s Dragon Mountain adventure.

While still at college, Jaquays became interested in science-fiction and fantasy gaming and the nascent role-playing game industry through the pages of The Space Gamer. Jaquays discovered Dungeons & Dragons in 1975 and formed the Fantastic Dungeoning Society with several friends at college including Mark Hendricks. Together they decided to create a fanzine, which would provide adventures for other Game Masters. TSR’s Tim Kask gave Jaquays a casual license to publish this fanzine, The Dungeoneer, an amateur publication but one of the earliest RPG periodicals.

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, 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 (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, 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 liked it enough that Chaosium published it as Griffin Mountain (1981). The MicroGame Chitin: I (1978) by Metagaming Concepts featured art by Jaquays. Jaquays, Denis Loubet, and Jeff Dee produced Cardboard Heroes in the early 1980s for Steve Jackson Games.

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Jaquays has two children from her first marriage. Jaquays announced in December 2011 that she identifies as a lesbian and trans woman. She resides in Seattle, Washington, with her wife Rebecca Heineman.

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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.