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Rich has been a comic book publisher, book reviewer, staff writer for STARDATE and STARDRIVE Magazine, and always a Science Fiction Fan. Richard is a venerable 55, engaged to be married, and lives in Oak Park, Michigan where he manages Tri Tac Games and works as Senior Computer Support for a dozen multi-national conglomerates. Hobbies include gardening, house restoration, publishing, writing, reading (science fiction, game theory, anthropology, psychology, sociology, paleontology, astronomy, conspiracy theory 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.

Richard has been a guest gaming and sci-fi guest at more than a dozen conventions across the years.

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

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". Knights of the Dinner Table (KotDT) voted him “one of the top 20 RPG game designers, one of the good guys, and lucky to rub your dice on”.

You may know him more for his work in the creation of the Role Playing game Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic, voted Best Fantasy RPG of 1991 by the RPGA Network at Gencon.  Classic RPGs designed by Tucholka include The Morrow Project*, Fringeworthy, FTL: 2448, Incursion, the upcoming Elfwinds and Hardwired Hinterland.

Modules include Invasion U.S., Rogue 417, Hellsnight, Haunts, Hearts, Bureau 13 Lost Files, Bureau 13 Special Edition, Bureau 13 Extreme, Fringeworthy Portals I & II, and the DM's Book Of Nasty Tricks & Misfit Magic.

There are a good number of Tri Tac Micro Games including 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 then there’s HOLES, a different kind of SF Miniatures Combat Game.