In the most unhinged episode that the pod lads are capable of producing, ghosts grow tired of keeping up the "are they or aren't they real" charade, and have resoundingly told humanity: "We're real, and we can do sick stunts." Ghosts start doing gnarly, grindhouse stunts and pulling in reality TV deals left and right, but there's one monkey wrench in this plan: the Catholic Church, which is worried about this new spiritual trend.How will the new spectral extreme sports industry handle the aims of the Vatican?   Prompts: Ghost. Spy. Extreme. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2  

In what will later be described as the chillest Walter-led world of all time, the Lads take you to the nation of Vargskyre, where long ago, the greatest king the country--High King Ksogga--took his own life after a year of terrible personal misfortune, plunging his empire into ruin. Now, Ksogga reigns as the God of Bad News, and the church of Vargskyre, to avert disaster, institutes a religious law that bad news can only be delivered on one day each year.Prompts: Holiday. Delivery. Morning. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

This relaxed two-person episode brings Chessman and Walter together, where they hatch a vision of a solar system where space is made up entirely of water. Strange gates between the worlds allow travel through space with wooden seafaring vessels, but why did the Sea Giants make these gates between worlds in the first place, and why are they killing those who traverse them? This setting has it all--a jellyfish sun, atmospheric collapse, and good old fashioned empire building gone wrong.Prompts: none! Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

The Lads buckle down to make a serious sci-fi episode about gas tubes that store consciousness. Without Walter's science-dampening abilities, there's nobody there to harass Chessman about her stupid gravity explanations.Prompts: Tubes, Gate, Sparkle, Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

Fueled by black coffee and alien sighting conspiracy videos, Walter helms an episode that quickly veers into a radical future where humanity returns to a cherry tree-covered Earth, and is granted magical powers by an invisible entity called Vox, which claims it has been waiting for them to return home. But what is Vox? Why did we leave Earth in the first place? What's with all these goddamn cherry trees everywhere? Organic computers, mysterious religious rituals, and genetic betrayal highlight this standout episode. In other news: Daniel bravely comes out in opposition to cum-drinking, and Walter pitches an MLM scheme. Prompts: Cherry. Mute. Pact.  Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

The masses have spoken, and they demand a wholesome, unobjectionable episode that they can listen to in the car while they're picking up their kids from their wives' boyfriends' houses. The boys try earnestly to pull this off.In a pocket dimension of his own design, a brilliant wizard allows civilization to flourish by removing curse words from human development--ushering in the perfect society. But representatives from the Divine have found out about this, and they're not too keen on all this good, clean fun happening without their spiritual oversight. Prepare yourselves, listeners, for some low-stakes tension!Prompts: Good. Clean. Fun. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

Chessman is banned from the show in a corporate move to make the podcast more relatable to mass audiences. To protest this, the lads do what they do best: crank out a mid-tier world using maybe ten percent of their available neural processing power. In a highly industrialized island nation, special rock dwarf creatures are sung out of the stones belowground using ancient instruments, and conscripted into soldiery. Legislative intervention has changed all this, and the rock dwarfs must now live and labor with their former oppressors, and find meaning in a changing world.Prompts: Industrial. Congress. Mandolin. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

What a long, twisted road it has been. Season four is upon us--delayed by a series of mishaps that were as comedic as they were forgivable and absolutely excusable. While the rest of you were asleep, the boys slapped together a premier episode. Trapped in an endless cycle of reincarnation at the whims of a heavenly bureaucracy, a spiritually-elevated humanity is beset by coordinated animal attacks. Who is behind them, and what is their ultimate aim?Prompts: Joy. Cultivation. Tiger. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

Sixteen worlds enter. Six or seven worlds don't enter. One world leaves. It's that time of year again. We're taking all the worlds of this season and running them through our cruel, calculating machine until we find the one world that we want to revisit. We'll laugh and cry as we put our darlings and yours out to pasture in search of the very best. Spoiler Alert: It's not Squid Game II. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

In an uncharacteristic display of competence, the pod boys clock in a terrific bite-sized episode before the start of the holiday season. On a planet surrounded by ten concentric salt rings, gargantuan lenses of unknown origin look out into mysterious and faraway parts of space. The natives are fascinated by them, and the discoveries they make astral projecting through the lenses to other galaxies have tremendously advanced their society, and cultivated interest in space at large. But unknown to the inhabitants of the planet, space is very, very interested in them.Prompt words: Salt. Lens. Impact. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

The gang has been drafted by Amazon Studios to produce the second installment of the award-winning Japanese (?) period drama, Squid Game. What follows is, without a doubt, the greatest artistic undertaking in television history. The boys storm the idea-laden cliffs of Normandy in a D-Day of creativity, and you lucky listeners have a chance to be a fly on the wall in the most ingenious, prop gun-filled writers room that the world has ever known. Sit in your favorite chair, crack open a seltzer, and treat yourself--to Squid Game II.Prompt words: N/A Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

Are you tired of banking it all on the nebulous concept of the afterlife, with no certainty that it will actually occur? NEVER FEAR--private companies, the vanguard of innovation, have stepped in to create a new and exciting DIGITAL REALM where you can visit your dead relatives, who are trapped there for an eternity of fun co-op and story-based missions. Do you want to talk with an AI-rendered simulation of your departed great grandfather while wearing a Lego Darth Vader skin, and also you both have to parkour through Bowser's Castle? Do you want to yell at your mother's ghost for being trash at pvp and tanking your familial score? Why not?Prompt words: Normal. Game. Gold. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

The Lads pitch a setting where one swing from an immensely powerful glaive will destroy the world. The year is 2390. The glaive has been swung seventeen times. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

Do you like swords? Do you like swords that have a mind of their own? Do you also like extended metaphors for the iniquities of a generation passing to another? With the other hosts out of commission for dubious reasons, Walt and Dan go mano-a-mano on this promptless, no-holds-barred episode. Check out the Three Dimensional Stories Project Here: https://sites.google.com/view/3dsp?fbclid=IwAR2f_Cxc8D_xfNJIxpWpQGja16_BxgjdmsKFooT4d3Cbueaihxvpmg7uHzw Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

Proving once again that their previously-promised upload schedule is subject entirely to their fickle whims, the boys harass their old creative writing professor, reclusive satyr Junius Wright III, to take part in the show. In this episode, the gang whips up a world where gods eat each other to gain more spiritual power. The implications of this are thoroughly discussed, and Wright gets to plug his Three Dimensional Stories Project--the premiere collaborative worldbuilding project in the multiverse. Prompts: Forgotten. Blasphemy. Wheel. Check out the Three Dimensional Stories Project Here: https://sites.google.com/view/3dsp?fbclid=IwAR2f_Cxc8D_xfNJIxpWpQGja16_BxgjdmsKFooT4d3Cbueaihxvpmg7uHzw Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

WE'RE BACK! Walter comes down to visit and the boys record in person for the first time. Their minds obliterated by shitty light beer, none of them could remember what this episode was about. In lieu of a coherent description, we're going to present, unaltered, the notes the boys scrawled on a Papa John's box: THE CRABSTAR, ZOM extending a claw-shaped solar flare to wipe out the planet spider crab people, whole ass crustaceansspider crab people came from space? in order to generate enough force, they would have to destroy the planet, underground steam geyser zach rants about gravity or some shit canals are attempt to avert apocalypse? check out heavy crab youtube channelPrompt Words: Fly. Frame. Canal.   Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

Belvin's momentary absence from the podcast is all it takes for the boys to strike creative gold. In the far future, bioweapons have advanced to the point of sophistication that would make any war an extinction-level event. The Earth's greatest athletes play games of golf inside giant, space-ready robots to resolve international disputes.But the mysterious Dark Golfer and the secretive organization NOCOUNTRY have an alternative, terrifying vision of the future, and they're disrupting the game in order to make it a reality. Prompt words: Bioweapon. Shoes. Golf. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2

Back in the saddle, back buildin' worlds. The great god Olag, gatekeeper to the afterlife, has discovered his new ambition: amassing hoards of wealth. He begins exporting spirit glass with magical properties to those on earth, causing all sorts of problems and technically using ghosts as slave labor. This setting earned worldbuilding's highest honor: The Worldbuilding Magazine Croix d’Honneur, which entitles the recipients to one "talk with someone who works at Hulu" that will never pan out. Prompt words: Prison. Glass. Aspire. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox Did you know we have a Discord? We made it as a tax write-off, but we occasionally hang out there! Here's the link: https://discord.gg/8qvuyTa3n2  

After lots of editing by Chessman to cover up various historical errors, the revisit of the Mendican gate is finally here! New listeners should listen to Season 2, episode 2 before diving into the revisit for proper background.  In this revisit, we touch on the fate of Mendicus, the Mexican American War, the nature of the devils, and, of course, Mormon cosmology. Give it a listen if you're so inclined.From this episode onward, we'll be releasing every other week as COVID lockdowns finally end in most places. We're sure you'll manage. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox  

The stars align and the boys not only create a grand slam episode, but also miraculously manage to get it published on time. Chessman is Lore Lad, and the crew outlines a world where a team of wizards harness the sorcerous energies of an armageddon that hasn’t yet happened as a magical power source. What could go wrong? Featuring animal mutations, magitek, dome cities, the darkness at the heart of humanity, “heavy light,” and the machinations of Doctor Wizard, a man of many (competing) names. Prompts: Ear. Yawn. Owl. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.com Our amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox