Tom Lischke

Tom Lischke is a Decipher product / game designer who appeared on contemporary Radio Free Decipher with Jerry Darcy and Chuck Kallenbach on SWCCG topics, and later on Jedi Knights and The Lord of the Rings TCG design broadcasts.

This page is a fan encyclopedia stub focused on SWCCG-related, sourced roles. It does not invent unpublished job titles beyond what cited indexes and interviews state.

SWCCG and Decipher design roles (sourced labels)

The Radio Free Decipher index lists Lischke with Darcy and Kallenbach on Broadcast 2 (11 December 1998), in the same episode that bills Darcy as Star Wars CCG Lead Game Designer. Broadcast 51 (22 September 2000) indexes him on the Jabba's Palace Sealed Deck product.

Those RFD index labels support Decipher design / product-design work adjacent to late SWCCG products. They do not, by themselves, place Lischke on Wikipedia's founding SWCCG designer line (Tom Braunlich, Rollie Tesh, Warren Holland, Jerry Darcy).

Jedi Knights / LOTR / WARS

RFD indexes and TheOneRing materials bill Lischke on Jedi Knights and LOTR TCG design topics (including a joint 2001 chat with Kallenbach as LOTR designers). Decipher WARS Radio later featured Lischke on WARS TCG design segments.

Interviews and audio (selected)

Title / episode	Date	Link
RFD Broadcast 2 — with Darcy & Kallenbach	1998-12-11	YouTube w2Ao759YJlk
RFD Broadcast 51 — Tom Lischke (Jabba's Palace Sealed Deck)	2000-09-22	YouTube 2tQmFqhsx74
RFD Broadcast 67 — Tom Lischke (Jedi Knights)	2001-02-09	YouTube bbJUdxzmdhQ
RFD Broadcast 85 — Lischke & Kallenbach (Jedi Knights)	2001-06-15	YouTube CbU2GxNNcd4
RFD Broadcast 87 — Early Look at LOTR TCG	2001-06-29	YouTube Xal3sJdiUyQ
RFD Broadcast 88 — LOTR Origins playtest	2001-07-13	YouTube 7xLGIcvYKFM
RFD Broadcast 92 — Dive Into the Twilight Pool	2001-08-17	YouTube fcB9gjah96k
RFD Broadcast 100 — Tom Lischke (LOTR status)	2001-10-12	YouTube OUpf9ge3x5U
RFD Broadcast 143 — The Two Towers development	2002-09-20	YouTube lA-8Wy_MT6Q
RFD Broadcast 162 — Online LOTR TCG	2003-04-25	YouTube yNRI4QTHZlk
TheOneRing Chat — Tom Lischke and Chuck Kallenbach	2001-10-20	archives.theonering.net
Gaming Havens — Tom Lischke and Joe Alread	(archive)	haven.theonering.net
WARS Radio 02 — Tom Lischke	2004-07-01	YouTube Ikcgtmhuhbc
WARS Radio 05 — Tom Lischke	2004-07-23	YouTube WUZg14CmK4o
WARS Radio 11 — Tom Lischke	2004-09-03	YouTube fxylvGWZnD4
WARS Radio 13 — Tom Lischke	2004-09-17	YouTube 0YfodG9YTkA

Episode titles follow the RFD / WARS index descriptions; do not invent additional titles.

See also

• Creators of SWCCG — related Decipher design staff (not founding SWCCG designer)
• Jerry Darcy · Chuck Kallenbach
• Joe Alread · Justin Pakes
• Tom Braunlich · Rollie Tesh
• Decipher · Star Wars CCG
• History of the Players Committee

Gaps

• No dedicated modern long-form Lischke podcast found this research pass (classic TOR + RFD / WARS corpus only).
• Primary Decipher employment dates / packaging bylines not transcribed here.
• Exact SWCCG set-by-set credit share vs. Darcy / later staff remains index- and interview-based.
• BoardGameGeek person page not fetched (host 403).

Sources

• Radio Free Decipher episode index (LOTR-TCG PC wiki)
• RFD YouTube playlist (Player's Council)
• Decipher WARS Radio playlist (per index)
• TheOneRing Chat — Lischke and Kallenbach (2001)
• Decipher Talks LOTR (TheOneRing, 2002)
• Gaming Havens — Lischke and Alread (archive)
• Star Wars Customizable Card Game (Wikipedia designer line; for contrast)