https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/arts/jennell-jaquays-dead.html
"Jennell Jaquays, who made luminous fantasy paintings, classic adventures for
tabletop role-playing games like
Dungeons & Dragons, and distinctive levels
in popular video games like
Quake II, died on Jan. 10 in Dallas. She was 67.
Ms. Jaquays’s wife, Rebecca Heineman, said the death, in a hospital, was caused
by complications of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
During Ms. Jaquays’s long career, gaming grew from a niche hobby into a
cultural touchstone. But long before
Dungeons & Dragons was adapted into hit
video games like
Baldur’s Gate 3 and films like “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor
Among Thieves,” and before it served as a signifier of nerdiness on television
shows like “Stranger Things,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “The Simpsons,”
devotees shared the adventures they created with other hobbyists.
Ms. Jaquays (pronounced “JAY-quays”) discovered
Dungeons & Dragons, often
abbreviated as
D&D, shortly after it was released in the mid-1970s, when she
was studying art in college."
RIP,
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