Update: Sadly Jennell passed away Jan 10, 2024. Jennell Jaquays, one of the founding creators of this hobby, needs our help.

[qstor]

Update: please see this news thread about her passing.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/industry-veteran-jennell-jaquays-passes.702020/#post-9238808

Few names hold as much weight in the world of RPGs as Jennell Jaquays. From near the beginning of the hobby her trailblazing work has influenced generations, she created one of the first RPG magazines, "The Dungoneer" published the same month as Dragon #1. She wrote designed and created the art for the first megadungeon, the H.G. Wells nominated "The Dark Tower". Her work appears in the pages of Dragon magazine. Outside of RPGs her activism and work with the Transgender Human Rights Institute in Seattle helped change the world.

She needs our help now. She's been diagnosed with a debilitating disease, looking at weeks in the hospital and months of rehabilitation. She has stabilized but the situation has remained dire.

Rebecca Heineman, Jennells wife, has setup a gofundme to help offset expenses. Please donate if you can.

Donate to Jennell Jaquays has a long road back, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m fundraising to help offset what is going to be heavy medical costs for Jenne… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Jennell Jaquays has a long road back

gofund.me

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Spoiler: Example of disrespectful referencing

And Judges Guild is disrespectful towards her by using her dead name

Mod edit: Put spoilers on the deadnaming, in respect. ~Umbran

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That image could probably be hidden behind a spoiler tag.

 

[billd91]

And Judges Guild is disrespectful towards her by using her dead name

Yeah, Bob Bledsaws Jr and III are virtually Nazis over there. So, no surprise.

Edit: And.... the Nazi wankers seem to have blocked me from their facebook page because I wasn't playing their little game that deadnaming Jennell was somehow "politically neutral".

 

[adamantyr]

Yeah, Bob Bledsaws Jr and III are virtually Nazis over there. So, no surprise.

Edit: And.... the Nazi wankers seem to have blocked me from their facebook page because I wasn't playing their little game that deadnaming Jennell was somehow "politically neutral".

Yeah, several people (Including Jayson Elliot and Jolly Blackburn) posted on their "tribute" saying they should update it to the correct pronoun and name. Their response? Delete all their posts.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Nothing shows how much you care about a former colleague like consciously and publicly crapping all over their stated desires when they're no longer around to object in person.

 

[qstor]

Yeah, Bob Bledsaws Jr and III are virtually Nazis over there. So, no surprise.

Edit: And.... the Nazi wankers seem to have blocked me from their facebook page because I wasn't playing their little game that deadnaming Jennell was somehow "politically neutral".

OH yeah I saw your post. Bob Bledsaw II blocked me as well!

 

[Gradine]

@qstor

Please place the images of current Judges Guild leadership deadnaming Jaquays behind spoiler tags

 

[Mannahnin]

Nothing shows how much you care about a former colleague like consciously and publicly crapping all over their stated desires when they're no longer around to object in person.

Awful people. May they receive the days they deserve.

 

[Autumnal]

Rick Meints of Chaosium, on the other hand, made a really good memorial post.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/vale-and-farewell-jennell-jaquays-1956-2024.702031/

 

[adamantyr]

Update: Judge's Guild FB page has removed the post. Good.