Career
Tucholka has been a role-playing game designer, comic book publisher, actor, book reviewer, staff writer for Stardate and Stardrive magazines, and a science fiction fan. He was also a senior computer technician for a worldwide service supplier of the automotive industry. As of 2013, Tucholka lives in Michigan, where he manages Tri Tac Games.
His best known role-playing game, Bureau 13, was voted Best Fantasy RPG of 1991 by the RPGA Network at General Conference
Others works include The Morrow Project with Robert Sadler and Kevin Dockery, Fringeworthy, FTL:2448, and Hardwired Hinterland. Supplements and adventure scenarios he has created include "Invasion United States.", "Cloistrs", "Rogue 417", "Weirdzone", "Holes", "Hellsnight", "Haunts", "Starcharts", "Hardwired Hinterland", "Bureau 13 EXTREME" "Bureau 13 SPECIAL EDITION", and the Doctor of Medicine"s Book Of Nasty Tricks & Misfit Magic.
The Tri Tac Micro Games that Tucholka has authored include Monster Squash, Geriatric Wars, Pterroductyl, The Viral Vegetable Wars, Drive By, War on High, Escape From Westerville State, Baby Boomer, Duck Trooper, Beach Bunny Bimbos with Blasters and HOLES, a science fiction miniatures combat game. He created the astronomical systems for the Midnight at the Well of Souls role-playing game by Technical Architecture Group Industries.
Like Isaac Asimov, Tucholka became a "Macho Target" - essentially a non-player character - in the game Macho Women with Guns.
Fringeworthy, 1981 edition, Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy, 1984 edition, Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy, 1990 edition, Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy: d20 edition, 2009 edition, Tri Tac Games
Rogue 417, 1985 edition, Tri Tac Games
Invasion United States, 1985, Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy: PORTALS 1, Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy: PORTALS 2, 2008 Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy: PORTALS 3: Exploration Notebook, 2012 Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy: PORTALS 4: Exploration War & Secrets, 2014 Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy: Cloisters: A Century After the Winter War, 2012 Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy: Weirdzone, 2010 Tri Tac Games
Fringeworthy: Special Edition Sourcebook for the d20 OGL System: 2009 edition, Tri Tac Games
FTL:2448, 1982 edition, Tri Tac Games
FTL:2448, 1985, Tri Tac Games
FTL:2448: Starcharts, 1984, Tri Tac Games
FTL:2448: Cop 2448, 1984, Tri Tac Games
FTL:2448 The Light Fantastic, Book One, 1990, Tri Tac Games
FTL:2448 Frontier 2448, Book Two, 1990, Tri Tac Games
Tri Tac Genesis, 2014, Tri Tac Games
Tri Tac Genesis II, 2014, Tri Tac Games
Incursion, 1992, Tri Tac Games
Incursion II Canadians Across the Galactic Empire, 2012, Tri Tac Games
Incursion III Poles Across the Galactic Empire, 2014, Tri Tac Games
Hardwired Hinterland, 2009, Tri Tac Games
Cloisters, 2012, Tri Tac Games
Murderhoof, 2014, Tri Tac Games
The Morrow Project by Timeline Games, Limited. Game authors: Kevin Dockery, Robert Sadler, and Richard Tucholka.