Caves of Qud is a roguelike RPG with both fantasy and futuristic elements to it. I picked it up during this latest Holiday Steam sale, and have jumped in. I'm hoping to post some of my adventures here in the CBlogs as well as some of m...

I've played World of Warcraft on and off for its fourteen year existence. When I logged on for the first time, I envisioned being an orc warrior, clad in armor, protecting my fellow members of The Horde. Something just didn't gel with ...

It's been quite some time since we last checked in on the Destructoid crew. Unfortunately, the notes of the goings on around the settlement were on the work laptop at the place I no longer work at. Thanks to the magic of cloud saves, I...

If you missed the first part of this story, please check it out here. Winter The season begins with violence. Eleven attackers from the Green Desert Kin League have arrived to raid the settlement in the night. The call to arms goes out...

It's time for a new season of Destructoid community members taking on the hardships of life after crashing onto an uncharted planet on the outer rim of the galaxy. As the transport ship was destroyed in a catastrophic accident, Dere, D...

This past Sunday, my wife and I ran the Philly Tough Mudder. This was her second, and my first experience. We volunteered on Saturday, and ran Sunday (only cost $20 to run it because of the volunteering). The course was 12 miles long o...

n the previous part of Torchman's Story of galactic adventure, he and the other residents of Torchland had weathered the storm of several attacks by The Murderous Party. Spring had ended, and everyone was hoping for the best in th...

(This contains some minor spoilers for Wasteland.) It was March of 2012. I headed on to IGN to check the news (it was about a year before I discovered Destructoid), and my eyeballs almost popped right out of my head. Brian Fa...

Welcome back! I've now compiled all my notes from my second Destructoid themed RimWorld game. This is the tale of Torchman and his adventures in space.  Torchman Begins Torchman began his life as a medieval lordling, and purs...

Day 31 When we last left our brave settler heroes, they were reeling from the sudden and unexpected loss of Jinx. He had not been with the group that long, but had proven to be an important and useful member of the team. Spirits were l...

Hi everybody! When we last left Also Cocks, the group had just successfully fought off the Notorious Worms Pirates, who were quickly becoming the archenemy of Destructoid. Jinx and Dangus are in the sick bay, getting better from the gu...

Welcome back! At the end of the last episode, the ragtag group calling themselves Destructoid in their settlement, Also Cocks, was reeling after a chance encounter with a mad boomrat as night began to fall. The food has run out. Dangus...

 Introduction Hello there! After discovering RimWorld last week, I’ve wanted to start a series about the adventures of my colonists, using Destructoid community member names in hopes of making some interesting stories. I&rsq...

My white whale of gaming is a game that can't even be beaten, and isn't even finished yet. I'm talking about Dwarf Fortress! For those unaware of the game, it's a strategy/simulation game about starting a dwarf settlement with a small carav...

I've concluded recently that I have a bit of an addiction when it comes to RPGs. I find myself starting a game up, playing several hours, and then starting over with a new character or slightly modified version of the previous one.  ...

Since it's release a few weeks ago, I've put quite a lot of time into Fallout 4 (129 hours, according to Steam). Recently, I feel like the game has been giving me diminishing returns on enjoyment provided. A couple nights ago, I threw my ar...

I've been around here for quite a while now, and I have put this off long enough. (I'm kind of lazy like that.) So here are my 10 random facts about me. lil' ol' me 1. I'm a family man I'm married and have 3 kids running around the house ...