{{Short description|American role-playing game designer}} {{Refimprove|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Chris Wiese | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Role-playing game designer. | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Chris Wiese''' is a role-playing game designer.
==Career== Chris Wiese began in the gaming industry as the marketing director and acting CEO of Holistic Design. He is one of the current partners in the company. He has made contributions to a number of their products, most particularly in the design of deck plans such as the ''Letters of Marque'' starship line, along with ''Space Station Cirrus''. He is the co-designer (with Ken Lightner) of ''Noble Armada'',<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}</ref>{{rp|323}} a miniatures game based on the flagship Holistic RPG ''Fading Suns''. He also was the primary developer for their other miniatures lines including ''Carnage'' and ''Fantasy Encounters''.
He has also worked heavily with the miniatures company ''Metal Express LLC''.
Under his tenure as vice president of GAMA, he more than doubled the income of the Origins Game Fair.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} With the retirement of the previous president, he was elected president.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} However, controversy over the wording over reforms to the GAMA charter, in part due to an effort led by Ryan Dancey, led to a complete changeover of personnel the following year.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}
Weise is the co-author of ''Dark Between the Stars''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16UGAAAACAAJ&q=%22Chris+Wiese%22|title = The Dark Between the Stars|isbn = 9781888906080|last1 = Inabinet|first1 = Samuel|last2 = Wiese|first2 = Chris|last3 = Bridges|first3 = Bill|last4 = Quaide|first4 = Rustin|date = October 1997}}</ref> and ''Merchants of the Jumpweb''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vAsGAAAACAAJ|title = Merchants of the Jumpweb|isbn = 9781888906097|last1 = Bridges|first1 = Bill|last2 = Moore|first2 = James|last3 = Campbell|first3 = Brian|last4 = Isaacs|first4 = Ross|last5 = Wiese|first5 = Chris|last6 = Inabinet|first6 = Samuel|last7 = Greenberg|first7 = Andrew|year = 1997}}</ref> His other credits include the ''Living Force Campaign Guide'' (2001) for the ''Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Edition'', and the ''Fading Suns Player's Guide'' (Revised Edition, 2012)
Holistic shut down production in 2003, at which point Wiese remained as the company President, and continued to spend his time with both GAMA and the new company he started, World Builders.<ref name="designers"/>{{rp|324}}
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==External links== * [http://www.holistic-design.com Official Holistic Design website] * {{Cite web | title = Dragon Con Biography | url = http://www.dragoncon.org/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1381 | accessdate = March 16, 2011 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20101004004024/http://dragoncon.org/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1381 | archivedate = October 4, 2010 }} * [http://www.gama.org GAMA Website]
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