In view of the recently seen dramatic effect of quenched random bonds on tr
icritical systems, we have conducted a renormalization-group study on the e
ffect of quenched random magnetic fields on the tricritical phase diagram o
f the spin-1 Ising model in d = 3. We find that random fields convert first
-order phase transitions into second-order phase transitions more effective
ly than random bonds. The coexistence region is extremely flat, attesting t
o an unusually small tricritical exponent beta(u). The random-field phase d
iagram is strikingly asymmetric. To accommodate this asymmetry, the second-
order boundary exhibits reentrance. [S0031-9007(99)08751-7].