On October 15, Fallout 76 lead designer Eric "Ferret" Baudoin passed away. The info came via Fallout 76 project lead Jeff Gardiner on Twitter and a Facebook tribute group memorializing Baudoin.
According to Kenneth Vigue, founder of the charity Fallout For Hope and creator of Chad: A Fallout 76 story podcast, who spoke to Baudoin's family, Baudoin passed away suddenly due to complications from cancer surgery.
I'm crushed right now. Ferret Baudoin took over as lead designer on #Fallout76 for wastelanders. An eternal optimist and a dear friend. We had lunch several times since I departed Bethesda. He will be dearly missed. https://t.co/Pi1FBiGntY
— Jeff Gardiner ➡️ SOMETHING WICKED GAMES (@jg93) October 17, 2022
"We'd text about any and all RPGs we were playing. He's the only person I know that plays more of them than [Emil Pagliarulo, design director at Bethesda] and I. He completed four runs of the most recent Pathfinder RPG alone," Gardiner said.
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