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Tri Tac Games is a publisher of role-playing games based in Pontiac, Michigan. The company is built primarily on the work of Richard Tucholka, its founder and president.

Company History

Tri Tac Games was founded in 1978 as "Tacky Tack Games". Tri Tac is one of several small companies that rode the wave of interest in RPGs beginning in the 1970s with TSR's Dungeons & Dragons.

The company's first product was the humorous microgame Geriatric Wars. Shortly thereafter followed Fringeworthy, the first interdimensional travel-based RPG, Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic, a late 20th Century Horror RPG, and FTL:2448, a space RPG, all Tucholka creations. The company name was changed to "Tri Tac Games" to reflect what the company saw as the more serious nature of its new products.

Currently the company sells a number of series of games, as well as books, including a book of cartoons, and a cookbook called Damn Strange Recipe Collection.

In 1994 the Tri Tac offices were raided by the FBI, because of alleged similarities between promotional ID badges distributed by Tri Tac personnel at a conference and certain official U.S. government ID badges. After the raid the federal prosecutor assigned to the case elected not to press charges. A year later the FBI showed up at the Tri Tac booth at Gencon 95 to make sure Tri Tac was in compliance. Tri Tac was no longer selling the badges but they did display one of the badges that got them in trouble. It was taped beneath a newspaper report about the raid. The FBI determined Tri Tac presented no threat to national security and left without comment.^{[citation needed]}

Current Games (not all have work currently in progress)

Bureau 13

Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic
Bureau 13 Adventures: Hellsnight, Haunts, The Lost Files, Vols 1 & 2
Bureau 13: Black Powder 1859-1889
Bureau 13: Scenes for Horror, Industry and Adventure

Bureau 13: Special Edition by Pollotta & Tucholka
Bureau 13: HEARTS
Bureau 13: EXTREME

Hardwired Hinterland

Hardwired Hinterland

Fringeworthy

Fringeworthy
Rogue 417
Invasion US
Catalogue of Alternative Worlds

Catalogue of Alternative Worlds II

Space RPGs

FTL:2448
Incursion

Microgames

Cosmic Wow!
Baby Boomer
Geriatric Wars
Escape from Westerville State
Drive By
War on High
Viral Vegetable Wars
The Hunt for Bread in October

Duck Wars

Duck Trooper
Polywumpus
Pterroductyl

Clay squash classics

Monster Squash
Mec Squash
Bug Squash
Mutant Squash
Japanese Monster Squash
Panzer Squash
People Squash

Other

Beach Bunny Bimbos with Blasters
Guests: An Invasion of the Earth Supplement
Holes: Wild Miniatures Combat
DM's Book of Nasty Tricks & Misfit Magic

External links

Official website of Tri Tac Games
- Tri Tac's description of the FBI raid

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+== Company History ==
-[[Media:== Company]] [[Media:[[Media:Example.ogg]][[Media:Example.ogg]]]] small companies that rode the wave of interest in RPGs beginning in the 1970s with [[TSR, Inc.|TSR]]'s ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
+Tri Tac Games was founded in 1978 as "Tacky Tack Games". Tri Tac is one of several small companies that rode the wave of interest in RPGs beginning in the 1970s with [[TSR, Inc.|TSR]]'s ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
 The company's first product was the humorous [[microgame]] ''Geriatric Wars''. Shortly thereafter followed ''[[Fringeworthy]]'', the first interdimensional travel-based RPG, ''[[Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic]]'', a late [[20th Century]] [[Horror fiction|Horror]] RPG, and ''[[FTL:2448]]'', a space RPG, all Tucholka creations. The company name was changed to "Tri Tac Games" to reflect what the company saw as the more serious nature of its new products.