Silent crawlers with a venomous bite. Web spinners, creating sticky, beautiful homes that double as deadly traps. Natures most artistic killers.
What fools would grow these tiny killing machines into the size of ponies or even larger?
Gnomes! Opportunistic dark gnomes, looking for profit, who stumbled upon an interdimensional substance—experimental yet undoubtedly powerful.
And then something else came creeping down the strand that connected the spiders to the interdimensional world, a shadow—the Shadow of the Spider Goddess!
Lloyd Metcalf is a life time gamer, illustrator, and designer of both RPG games and aesthetics. I Have written numerous adventure modules and illustrated for many people in the OSR (Old School Renaissance) gaming industry. Fail Squad Games.com and LMetcalf.com profile and encompass much of my work.