The Sand Spiders! It’s a cool name, I think! Actually, after thinking I came up with the name all by my lonesome, I realized where I’d heard it before: it’s inspired by this funny exchange from the old James Cameron movie “True Lies”

“Probably because it sounds scary.”

I couldn’t think of a better name for a group of thieves who put on a good show and talk a good talk, but are actually a bunch of semi-dysfunctional goofs with skills that happen to get them out of jams they deliberately put themselves in.

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Also, when you’re a professional thief, even when you’ve just found a crate full of gems and jewelry, you’re always looking out for the next big opportunity. Theo’s been in the game for a while, so he knows to take advantage of anything that comes up. But WHAT could that something be? We’ll find out in the coming weeks!

For this week’s guest art, I realized that while I promised to share some more of Elson Wong’s Western Deep character artwork several weeks ago, I never did! I seek to remedy that grave injustice starting this week, with this wonderful piece of Dakkan!

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Elson’s style really does justice to the characters of Beyond the Western Deep, with expressive faces, fun poses, and colors that really pop. Elson actually captures these poses using himself as a reference, which explains how he gets them looking so good!

I’ll share more of his artwork next week (for real, this time)! Until then!