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About Tri Tac Games
Tri Tac Games had its humble beginnings in 1978 when Role Playing was a single boxed set of TSR books and hard-to-get polyhedral dice. First called "Tacky Tack Games", the company produced the classic Micro game, Geriatric Wars. Everybody laughed and enjoyed the inexpensive game. Within three years Rich Tucholka had created Fringeworthy, the first RPG of inter- dimensional travel, and was hard at work on Bureau 13, the first Late Twentieth Century Horror RPG, and a space Role Playing game called FTL: 2448. The company name was changed to reflect the new and more serious products. Over the next seven years these games saw two editions and continued to sell. In the early 1990's all of the Tri Tac RPG books were upgraded into third edition color-covered books. Now the products are being offered in multi-platform PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader) on CD, enabling gamers to produce copies on their own printers.
About Rich Tucholka
This is an amazingly creative individual who has been traveling SF Conventions for over thirty years. You can tell he was destined to be a SF and horror fan by his last name, a word that has survived since the dawn of Rome. If you know Etruscan mythology, look it up, or embarrass him by asking.
Tucholka has been called "one of the unsung heroes of Role Playing" and "Michigan's Gaming Guru". You may know him more for his work in the creation of the Role Playing games Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic, voted Best Fantasy RPG of 1991 by the RPGA Network at Gencon. Others works include The Morrow Project, Fringeworthy, FTL: 2448, and Hardwired Hinterland. Modules include Invasion U.S., Rogue 417, Hellsnight, Haunts, Hearts, Bureau 13 Lost Files, Bureau 13 Special Edition, Bureau 13 Extreme, and the DM's Book Of Nasty Tricks & Misfit Magic. There are a bunch of Young Adult Tri Tac Micro Games like Monster Squash, Geriatric Wars, Pteroductyl, The Viral Vegetable Wars, Drive By, War on High, Escape From Westerville State, Baby Boomer, Duck Trooper, and Beach Bunny Bimbos with Blasters, and HOLES, a different kind of SF Miniatures Combat Game.
Rich has been a comic book publisher, book reviewer, staff writer for STARDATE and STARDRIVE Magazine, and always a Science Fiction Fan. Richard is (gasp) 54, single, and lives in Pontiac, Michigan where he manages Tri Tac Games and works as Senior Computer Support for a multi-national conglomerate. Hobbies include stamp collecting, selling on eBay, house restoration, publishing, writing, reading (science fiction, anthropology, psychology, sociology, paleontology, and military history), and trying to index his 18,000+ books and B Budget Movies. He packed rooms when he did "Uncle Richard's Trash Video Roundup" across the Midwest for a number of years at many Science Fiction Conventions. Rich also mentions he is owned by several cats. If you ever have a chance to play with Tucholka as an RPG Game Master, he will knock your socks off. He can be reached at Tucholka@hotmail.com
The Game Master © William Aksel