Laura Roslof

After leaving TSR, the Roslofs moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, where Laura opened an art studio. She and Jim remained married for 42 years, until Jim's death in 2011. They raised three children, and at the time of Laura's death, she had four grandchildren.

At the height of TSR's market dominance, the perceived sexuality of Laura Roslof's "The Illusion of the Decapus" resulted in the almost complete destruction of an entire TSR D&D adventure, making it a very collectible item. At the 1984 Gen Con game fair auction, a copy sold for $300. Twenty-four years later, in 2008, a copy in VF/SW (very fine/slight warp) condition sold at auction for $3050, at the time the highest confirmed sale price for any single non-unique TSR D&D module. In 2011, a few copies were still available from out-of-print resellers; in shrink-wrapped, near mint condition these were priced at $1300–$1500.

In 1981, both Laura and Jim were working in the art department at TSR, where Jim had been promoted to Art Director after TSR manager Kevin Blume summarily fired most of the other artists. Jean Wells was writing a new Dungeons & Dragons adventure, Palace of the Silver Princess, and had created a new monster, the decapus, that used illusions to lure adventurers into its clutches. The text for the room housing the decapus read "A beautiful young woman hangs from the ceiling. Nine ugly men can be seen poking their swords lightly into her flesh, all the while taunting her in an unknown language and pulling at what few clothes she has on. Part of her ankle length hair has been wrapped around her legs, securely binding them together, while the rest of her hair has been used to tie her hands to a ceiling beam." Laura Roslof was given the task of creating interior art for this. The result was a half-page illustration titled "The Illusion of the Decapus", showing a scantily-clad young woman tied up with lengths of her own hair while surrounded by leering goblin-like creatures.

Laura S. Roslof (November 12, 1948 – April 2, 2018) was an American artist. She and her husband, Jim Roslof, worked for TSR, Inc. during the "golden age" of Dungeons & Dragons. Laura was best known for creating a contentious piece of art for the D&D adventure Palace of the Silver Princess.

Laura Roslof (née Miller) was born November 12, 1948, in DeKalb, Illinois to Edward and Hildegard (Vilser) Miller. On April 28, 1968, at age 20, she married Jim Roslof.