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 Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), is an American game company. It was founded in 1992 as Several Dudes Holistic Gaming. The company has developed many computer games in its history, including ''Battles of Destiny'', ''Hammer of the Gods (video game), ...

. 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'', 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 Origins Game Fair is an annual gaming convention that was first held in 1975. Since 1996, it has been held in Columbus, Ohio at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Origins is run by The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA). Origins was cha ...

. With the retirement of the previous president, he was elected president. However, controversy over the wording over reforms to the GAMA charter, in part due to an effort led by

Ryan Dancey Ryan S. Dancey is a businessman who has worked primarily in the collectible card game and role-playing game industries. He was vice president in charge of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' at Wizards of the Coast. When the publisher of Dungeons & Dragon ...

, led to a complete changeover of personnel the following year. Weise is the co-author of ''Dark Between the Stars'' and ''Merchants of the Jumpweb''. His other credits include the ''Living Force Campaign Guide'' (2001) for the '' Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Edition'', and the ''

Fading Suns ''Fading Suns'' is a science fiction space opera role-playing game published by Holistic Design. The setting was also used for a PC game (''Emperor of the Fading Suns''), a live action role-playing game ('' Passion Play''), and for a space co ...

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.

References

External links

Official Holistic Design website
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GAMA Website
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