Thirty Minute Worlds

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 crustaceans spider 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 channel Prompt Words: Fly. Frame. Canal.

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  

In a special old-timey radio episode, Chessman and Dan pull the ripcord on a new post-apocalyptic setting. Humans have regressed to Edwardian technology, and hidden alien interlopers interfere with mankind's attempts to reclaim civilization on an Earth that's been terraformed to be hostile to them.  Look forward to the Mendican Gate revisit next week! 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

Chessman's on deck as Lore Lad, and this setting involving robots controlled by tiny beetles quickly careens off the deep end and into madness. Fortunately, Walter wisely fucks up his audio in what is known as the "Kunkle Maneuver," effectively pouring cold water on the setting for a bit and adding some much needed dampening of the energy. This one's very put there--it features a tropical island world patrolled by ironclad ships, LIZARD PEOPLE (at the insistence of Daniel), and a Clandestine Alliance of Weaponized Insectoid Robots™. Prompts: Robot. Gutter. Tropical. 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

Bound by their ancient pact to produce one incredibly stupid and obtuse world every four episodes, the fellas dream this monstrosity up. Imagine a world—a world where a a hyper-advanced Neural Intelligence Life Enhancement System (N.I.L.E.S.) controls every aspect of everyone’s lives, with the aim of producing millions upon millions of sitcoms for an alien audience. The only way to fight back? Weed duuuuuude. Prompts: Sitcom. Flower. College. 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

Do you long for a setting that blends the freedom and headiness of the Old West with the crushing guilt and religious mystery of medieval Catholicism? You don't? Well that's what we made, and you have to wait a week for the next one, so you might as well enjoy it. Faced with an embargo that blocks their powerful sainted relics from being delivered to the frontier, the Faithful will have to survive on what little they have. Gun-slinging saints guard reliquae-bearing pilgrimages further and further into the wilderness, cloven-hooved minotaurs menace mountain passes in service to their wild god, and peasants fervently toil and pray for deliverance from unknowable Evil. There is only Sin, there is only the Wild, and there is only Surrender. Prompts: Embargo. Icon. Cowboy.

In the world of Unione, genius inventor Phillipa Chiaroscuro creates a camera that can travel through Il Fumo--the smoke that connects realities. A missing city, the study of portraiture, Renaissance art terms, and tortilla chips garnish this legendary episode. Prompts: Bag. Photograph. Smoke. 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 prompts: bag, photograph, smoke

Friend of the pod and Prince of Revels Will Isaacson joins the boys to talk a bit about his work as a composer of music for vijyagaems. But a guest spot comes with a price--Will must build a world with 4 prompts and take the cursed throne of Lore Lad. In a world where special whalebone bells are vital to seaborne shipping, an ancient religion locks horns with a shadowy commerce guild to control them. Prompts: Driftwood. Bell. Postage. Embassy. Check out Will's amazing soundtracks and music at his website here. 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 Pod Boys hastily arrange a three minute world episode to half-assedly crank out enough settings to keep their show. Will they survive? (yes)   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 Sitarii are a conquering people who have figured out a way (it's bullshit and it involves pyramids) to amplify the world's natural harmonic sound magic to wreak terrible destruction. Who can stand against their awesome military might!? Will Chessman convince Walter to stop eating cashews while recording!? Will we find a third dramatic question to round out this bit now that we've seemingly committed to it!? Find out in this EXCITING episode of 30MW. Prompts: Sitar. Scavenger. Pyramids. 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 fellas snag WB Mag editor in chief Adam Bassett for an extra special (and extra-length) worldbuilding session. In a London-esque, industrialized wasteland, color wizards derive magical powers (and mutations!) from special pigmentations found in coral reefs. We expect imminent lawsuits from the Magic: the Gathering legal team forthwith.Prompts: Genuine. Fish. Mutation. Paint.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadoxAdam can be found on twitter as well @adamcbassett Here's a bunch of links to his stuff:Worldbuilding Magazine: Home - Worldbuilding MagazineFray: Fray - Smunchy GamesFourth Horizon can be playtested here: The Fourth Horizon Public Test Build: Available Now - Smunchy Games

Trillions of years in the future, as the universe draws to a close, working stars are in short supply. A galactic-scale holding company moves stars for money. Naturally, problems ensue, and a lot of assets (and beings) get liquidated. Featuring: the triumph of communism, Space Mongols, mausoleum planets made of quartz, Walter constantly tapping his goddamn microphone, and robot eunuchs.Prompts: Bank. Recycle. Stars.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox

What if plays performed in front of an audience of fairies had the power to shape your entire life? Though Zach is the Lad on this one, this is probably the most Belvin setting of all time--so much so that he will be taken off the next several episodes to allow the creative ecosystem to balance out.Prompts: Marriage. Kabuki. Copy.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox

Chessman's in charge which means it's time to get weird. Using the Lore Lad's seldom used VIBE POWER, Chessman stipulates that this setting should have no people in it. In this one, a cognizant and not even really humanoid being travels through the end of every world to observe its destruction and pick up mementos. Belvin's little-known Katamari Damacy obsession rears its head here.Prompt Words: Tie. Runner. Dissolve.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox

SEASON THREE ARRIVES, and with it many formatting changes. With Walter as the lad, the guys conjure up a setting about a magical table owned by a scheming Baron--a table that allows him to see the secrets of all who dine there. Can he be stopped, or will his rapacious greed and animal cunning plunge the Twin Cities into peril? Soul-stealing, vigilantes, and intrigue play heavily into a setting that's definitely not at all derivative of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Prompt words: Table. Surveillance. Manor.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox

This episode was delayed due to a protest of the final results that caused a month’s worth of legal arguing and court disputes.Which world will the lads revisit? Which ones will be eliminated tragically? Will one of Chessman’s riffs finally land? Find out now—and see you next year in Season 3!

The gang load up their guns and prepare to put some bullets in the heads of this latest season's least satisfactory worlds. Tune in next week for the main event of Season 2, when we decide which world will win the honor of an in-depth revisit next season. The remaining settings will be buried in a shallow grave, never to be seen or heard from again. If there's a world you're fond of and you don't hear it mentioned on here, don't worry. They're in the running for the finalist spot, and we wanted to keep our opinions on some of them until the actual finale.Prompt words: No. Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox

After secretly promising not to make a setting that's any good before the season finale, the guys immediately break that promise and design a concrete megacity patrolled by rebellious golems. Learn more about the DC-area train system than you ever wanted to know.Prompt words: Caffeine. Concrete. Plague.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox"Juno Listens to Jupiter's Auroras", "Musical tones from Juno Waves Perijove 4 pass", and "Juno Crosses Jupiter's Magnetopause" by The University of Iowa are licensed under CC BY 3.0.

Belvin swerves the setting toward familiar, swampy ground as he whips the world of Lura, a place where the truest art--gambling--is used to resolve all legal disputes.Prompt words: Card. Bayou. Court.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox"Juno Listens to Jupiter's Auroras", "Musical tones from Juno Waves Perijove 4 pass", and "Juno Crosses Jupiter's Magnetopause" by The University of Iowa are licensed under CC BY 3.0.

At last--long last--all is revealed, and the children of Abaris shall walk into the heavens. Global warming, the biblical flood, the miniature Ice Age, the presence of aliens on planet Earth, and the extinction of the dinosaurs are all explained plainly and logically through the writings of the Old Master, Herodotus.Prompt words: Doctor. Smoke. Yummy.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadoxGREEN LEAVES is from Jason Shaw's album 'Audionautix: Acoustic'. You can find it and other music licensed under Creative Commons at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw

Belvin returns from the hospital to lead the crew. In this world, a galactic empire loves its celebrities; that is until they say something unpatriotic, at which they and all their branded merchandise are canceled and unceremoniously dumped on Trash Planet.Prompt words: Idol. Dump. Flag.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadoxGREEN LEAVES is from Jason Shaw's album 'Audionautix: Acoustic'. You can find it and other music licensed under Creative Commons at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw

LATE EPISODE AHOY! With Belvin tragically dead in a car accident, the remainder of the crew tearfully construct a world in his memory. When a cataclysmic event pretty much severs the connection between the human world and the plane of fire, an enterprising group of djinn devise a creative and exciting solution to the our world's woes.Prompt words: Fire. Bureaucracy. Numbers.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox

Y'all ever heard of, uh... Goblins? The little green monsters make their first appearance on our drafting table. Also within: - Gross flightless dragon gods who live deep underground. - Salami the Prankster God makes his first of many appearances under a pseudonym. - Chessman is wrong about something yet again.  Prompt words: Maw. Speech. Goblin.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox

Anime mongrel and friend of the show James Moller drops by and Belvin refuses to leave, so we have to do four prompts for this one. The Lads weave a complicated geopolitical web in this particular episode. A group of rogue monk-soldiers specializing in aerial combat break away from a war that is engulfing the world to lead an independence revolt on a distant island. Prompt words: Key. Lime. Prophecy. World War II.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox 

Not related to the film starring David Bowie, except for the swirly walls and the bulge. Content warning: animal anatomy, crab anatomy, swords with sandals, brain vore. I don't usually write the descriptions. Do people read these? Do people notice when episodes come out really, really late?By the way, Walter has laid a tangled web of clues throughout all these descriptions, and if you can put them together and solve their riddle, it will lead you to a real world cash prize, probably! Terms and conditions apply, most likely.Prompt words: Labyrinth. Nest. Money.Reach out to the Lore Lads on twitter @lorelads or at thirtyminuteworlds@gmail.comOur amazing artist is Chelle Torre--follow her on twitter @jovialparadox

It’s my birthday and they made me put the podcast up anyway—fucking unbelievable. This one’s pretty bleak, folks, not gonna lie. Also: Belvin finally throws away his talking animal crutches and becomes Certified Cool.Prompt words: Wisp. Fear. Caravan.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 unholy union of Walter "Vitamin K" Kunkle and Zachary "Nabokov" Chessman produces a more freeform setting than the show has had previously. In this new land, prompts are thrown aside, and the Lads get down to the nitty gritty of building a world focused around colonizing a shattered afterlife. Nautical angels, tyrant kings, and colossal tomb castles stand out in this bleak episode. Read Zach Chessman's winning flash fiction story, Foo Fighters, in Fantastic Other Magazine here: https://fantasticother.com/2020/08/31/foo-fighters-by-zach-chessman/ 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

Without Chessman's fruitless song references to distract them, the boys center themselves, tighten their headbands, and construct the best swashbuckling setting the Earth has ever seen. A large inland sea has been locked in perpetual daylight for decades, and humans, as well as most of the gods, are stumped as to what to do. Who will take the helm of the sun galleon in the sky and steer her westward once again? And what's that scheming Night God up to? Prompt words: Curse. Swashbuckling. Sunlight. 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

In a time before time, the enlightened and powerful naga race, led by the trickster god Knifetongue, disappeared into mirrors to hide from Death. But this safeguard from mortality comes, as usual, at a terrible price.  Prompt words: Egg. Trickster. Death. 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

Times on the diamond were peaceful, until the giants came from across the sea. With them, too, came the strangely energizing and enigmatic juice, which soon covered the entirety of the known world. The fabric of human civilization itself strains under the pounding of earth-shattering feet—and the Eternal, Divine Game drags on for ceaseless millennia, spiraling society into a brutal hellscape in which only the strong (and the lucky) can hope to survive. Prompt words: Baseball. Big. Juice. 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

Lore Lad Pictures is proud to present Season 1's lost episode--restored to perfect fidelity using state-of-the-art AUDIO SURGERY. An omnipresent King sends machine-spirit guided transport craft down to the primitive humans of the world below. In return for these marvelous flying vehicles, the King asks for only one thing--our soil. Prompt words: King. Soil. Truckin'. 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

In Walter’s absence, the gang flings together a setting where mole men run a college located on a subterranean train. This one’s pretty out there.Prompt words: Railway. College. Mole People. 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 

A rehash of James Cameron's Avatar never looked this good. Daniel leads the fellas in outlining a setting where Flow, a mental state of lucid concentration, is treated like a commodity and harvested unsustainably from the earth. Featuring conquistadors, on-mic cashew chewing, and GUN HALBERDS. Prompt words: Jungle. Lamp. Flow. 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