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* In the ''Terra Arisen'' setting for the [[{{TabletopGame/Traveller}} Cepheus Engine]], the Reticulans are pretty much the classic Greys. Small stature, coldly logical, and strongly psionic. They rule a vast interstellar empire of various client races that until recently, included Terrans. The current day takes place a few years after the Terrans won a brutal war of independence, now the newly created United Terran Republic maintains an uneasy peace with the Reticulan Empire.
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** ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'': The Greys are TheFairFolk conforming to the modern equivalent of Faerie and Faerie Abduction myths. Well, at least the ''confirmed'' ones are. The books point out that there ''could'' be real aliens, and you're free to include them in your game if you want.
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** ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'': ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': The Greys are TheFairFolk conforming to the modern equivalent of Faerie and Faerie Abduction myths. Well, at least the ''confirmed'' ones are. The books point out that there ''could'' be real aliens, and you're free to include them in your game if you want.
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*** Much closer to the mark, the Greys appear in the Alternity campaign setting ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', which was a conspiracy game -- sort of like a table-top ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''.
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*** Much closer to the mark, the Greys appear in the Alternity campaign setting ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter1999'', which was a conspiracy game -- sort of like a table-top ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''.
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* The greys show up in the {{Tabletop RPG}}s ''{{TabletopGame/Alternity}}'' and later ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' under the name Fraal. Most are in the wise and benevolent mode, studying the effects of alien intervention on humanity, while trying to safeguard them from aliens with less benign intentions... but some extremists believe that humanity is an inferior race that should be subjugated. However, this is just their default version; at least one campaign setting (for ''D20 Future'') has them as conspirators implied to be plotting to conquer Earth.
** Though they look considerably more humanoid than does the Grey at the top of the page: they have human skin tones and generally wear clothing.
*** Much closer to the mark, the Greys appear in the Alternity campaign setting ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', which was a conspiracy game - sort of like a table-top ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''.
** Though they look considerably more humanoid than does the Grey at the top of the page: they have human skin tones and generally wear clothing.
*** Much closer to the mark, the Greys appear in the Alternity campaign setting ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', which was a conspiracy game - sort of like a table-top ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''.
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* The greys show up in the {{Tabletop RPG}}s ''{{TabletopGame/Alternity}}'' ''TabletopGame/{{Alternity}}'' and later ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'': The Greys show up under the name Fraal. Most are in the wise and benevolent mode, studying the effects of alien intervention on humanity, while trying to safeguard them from aliens with less benign intentions... but some extremists believe that humanity is an inferior race that should be subjugated. However, this is just their default version; at least one campaign setting (for ''D20 Future'') has them as conspirators implied to be plotting to conquer Earth.
**Though Although they look considerably more humanoid than does the Grey at the top of the page: they have human skin tones and generally wear clothing.
*** Much closer to the mark, the Greys appear in the Alternity campaign setting ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', which was a conspiracy game- -- sort of like a table-top ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''.
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*** Much closer to the mark, the Greys appear in the Alternity campaign setting ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', which was a conspiracy game
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* In ''[[TabletopGame/BigEyesSmallMouth BESM 3rd Edition]]'', one of the racial templates is in fact, a Grey.
* The "''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' meets ''Series/TheXFiles''" {{RPG}} ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' has the Greys as a mask worn by the Mi-gou, a race of fungus-like aliens with sinister intentions. They struck a deal with Majestic-12 (Delta Green's "replacement") and regularly supply them with reality-bending technology.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' newcomers the Tau are close to this trope (perhaps the original Greys got purged by the Imperium of Man?). The Tau have grey skin, dark eyes, and no nose, but they are taller than typical Greys, and have hoofed feet (They are evolved from grazing ruminants and uplifted through the pheremone glands of a giant insect). Though their vessels are not saucers, they favor smooth, rounded shapes, and their technology looks more advanced than the humans' ([[UsedFuture long story on that one]]). The Tau are not so much about abducting people as they are about welcoming them into their [[TheFederation empire]], [[JoinOrDie whether they want to or not]]. They subvert the trope by being relatively naive and idealistic in a thoroughly GrimDark setting - they justify orbital bombardment and sterilization as being "[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for the Greater Good]]" rather than killing out of xenophobia.
* The Ka Luon from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''.
* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', The Greys are TheFairFolk conforming to the modern equivalent of Faerie and Faerie Abduction myths. Well, at least the ''confirmed'' ones are. The books point out that there ''could'' be real aliens, and you're free to include them in your game if you want.
** The stereotypical Roswell Greys are later confirmed as actually existing in the ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' book ''Summoners''. And so is the Chupacabra, although this version looks more like a sabertoothed canine than the "vampire Grey" of popular culture, presumably based on apocryphal accounts of autopsied Chupacabra corpses that resembled a unknown species of canine.
* The RPG ''Dark Conspiracy'' features Greys as one of several extraterrestrial races the player-characters can encounter.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' has the Inheritors, [[spoiler: who are actually post-Singularity ''humans'']].
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' features Greys in some of it's settings. In GURPS Black Ops, the Greys are an amoral race stranded on Earth, and prone to abducting and enslaving people and performing bizarre experiments while waiting for their SOS to reach their homeworld. The Black Ops Conspiracy seeks to eliminate them before the Rescue ship arrives. In GURPS Atomic Horror, the Greys are known as "Alphans", and abduct people to extract genetic information, which they use to create new members of their species.
* In TabletopGame/JAGSWonderland, the Greys are [[spoiler:humans who have been altered by Project Pagan to be something the Caretakers can tolerate.]]
* The Greydle archetype in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' TCG is a race of slime-like Grey aliens in their natural form. This is made evident in the artwork for Greydle Impact.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the derro take numerous traits from them, such as abducting humans for disturbing experiments in the middle of the night and resembling small humanoids with pupiless eyes. However, they're actually a race of degenerate fey that come from BeneathTheEarth instead. Actual Greys appear too with all the more sinister elements of this trope like BlueAndOrangeMorality, nightmarish experiments involving abduction onto strange vessels, PsychicPowers and enigmatic origins.
* Transhumans in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' engineered biomorphs based on Greys, officially they're based on DNA of 100% human origin, but some half-serious conspiracy theories claim they were spliced with genetic material recovered from Roswell. Given how little extraterrestrial life in the setting resembles Terran life in general (the only living sophonts contacted look like giant slime molds), it's unlikely that particular theory is true.
* The "''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' meets ''Series/TheXFiles''" {{RPG}} ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' has the Greys as a mask worn by the Mi-gou, a race of fungus-like aliens with sinister intentions. They struck a deal with Majestic-12 (Delta Green's "replacement") and regularly supply them with reality-bending technology.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' newcomers the Tau are close to this trope (perhaps the original Greys got purged by the Imperium of Man?). The Tau have grey skin, dark eyes, and no nose, but they are taller than typical Greys, and have hoofed feet (They are evolved from grazing ruminants and uplifted through the pheremone glands of a giant insect). Though their vessels are not saucers, they favor smooth, rounded shapes, and their technology looks more advanced than the humans' ([[UsedFuture long story on that one]]). The Tau are not so much about abducting people as they are about welcoming them into their [[TheFederation empire]], [[JoinOrDie whether they want to or not]]. They subvert the trope by being relatively naive and idealistic in a thoroughly GrimDark setting - they justify orbital bombardment and sterilization as being "[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for the Greater Good]]" rather than killing out of xenophobia.
* The Ka Luon from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''.
* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', The Greys are TheFairFolk conforming to the modern equivalent of Faerie and Faerie Abduction myths. Well, at least the ''confirmed'' ones are. The books point out that there ''could'' be real aliens, and you're free to include them in your game if you want.
** The stereotypical Roswell Greys are later confirmed as actually existing in the ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' book ''Summoners''. And so is the Chupacabra, although this version looks more like a sabertoothed canine than the "vampire Grey" of popular culture, presumably based on apocryphal accounts of autopsied Chupacabra corpses that resembled a unknown species of canine.
* The RPG ''Dark Conspiracy'' features Greys as one of several extraterrestrial races the player-characters can encounter.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' has the Inheritors, [[spoiler: who are actually post-Singularity ''humans'']].
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' features Greys in some of it's settings. In GURPS Black Ops, the Greys are an amoral race stranded on Earth, and prone to abducting and enslaving people and performing bizarre experiments while waiting for their SOS to reach their homeworld. The Black Ops Conspiracy seeks to eliminate them before the Rescue ship arrives. In GURPS Atomic Horror, the Greys are known as "Alphans", and abduct people to extract genetic information, which they use to create new members of their species.
* In TabletopGame/JAGSWonderland, the Greys are [[spoiler:humans who have been altered by Project Pagan to be something the Caretakers can tolerate.]]
* The Greydle archetype in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' TCG is a race of slime-like Grey aliens in their natural form. This is made evident in the artwork for Greydle Impact.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the derro take numerous traits from them, such as abducting humans for disturbing experiments in the middle of the night and resembling small humanoids with pupiless eyes. However, they're actually a race of degenerate fey that come from BeneathTheEarth instead. Actual Greys appear too with all the more sinister elements of this trope like BlueAndOrangeMorality, nightmarish experiments involving abduction onto strange vessels, PsychicPowers and enigmatic origins.
* Transhumans in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' engineered biomorphs based on Greys, officially they're based on DNA of 100% human origin, but some half-serious conspiracy theories claim they were spliced with genetic material recovered from Roswell. Given how little extraterrestrial life in the setting resembles Terran life in general (the only living sophonts contacted look like giant slime molds), it's unlikely that particular theory is true.
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%%* ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' has the Inheritors, [[spoiler:who are actually post-Singularity humans]].
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* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' has the Greys as a mask worn by the Mi-gou, a race of fungus-like aliens with sinister intentions. They struck a deal with Majestic-12 (Delta Green's "replacement") and regularly supply them with reality-bending technology.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' features Greys in some of i's settings.
** ''GURPS Atomic Horror'': The Greys are
** ''GURPS Black Ops'': The Greys are an amoral race stranded on Earth, and prone to abducting and enslaving people and performing bizarre experiments while waiting for their SOS to reach their homeworld. The Black Ops Conspiracy seeks to eliminate them before the Rescue ship arrives.
* ''TabletopGame/JAGSWonderland'': The Greys are [[spoiler:humans who have been altered by Project Pagan to be something the Caretakers can tolerate]].
* ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'':
** ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'': The Greys are TheFairFolk conforming to the modern equivalent of Faerie and Faerie Abduction myths. Well, at least the ''confirmed'' ones are. The books point out that there ''could'' be real aliens, and you're free to include them in your game if you want.
** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'': The stereotypical Roswell Greys are described in ''Summoners''. So is the {{Chupacabra}}, although this version looks more like a sabertoothed canine than the "vampire Grey" of popular culture, presumably based on apocryphal accounts of autopsied Chupacabra corpses that resembled an unknown species of canine.
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'':
** The Elohim are a Choir of angels whose true forms resemble hairless, pale-skinned, big-eyed humans. They're dispassionate and logical beings, intended to serve as bias-free arbiters and mediators for Heaven.
** The Grey aliens are Ethereal spirits, servants of the Demon Princess of Nightmares who specialize in invading human dreams to create vivid nightmares of abduction, vivisection, and torturously invasive surgery. They feed off of the Essence generated by their victims' terror, and additionally cultivate a small myth around themselves by tricking their victims into thinking that their dreams were real and by occasionally making an appearance in the physical world. They have a bitter enmity with the Benevolent Space Brothers, another group of Ethereals who sustain themselves by impersonating the myth of benevolent, advanced new-age aliens and who feel that the Greys are poachers and copycats, and with the Elohim.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': The derro take numerous traits from this archetype, such as abducting humans for disturbing experiments in the middle of the night and resembling small humanoids with pupiless eyes. However, they're actually a race of degenerate fey that come from BeneathTheEarth instead. Actual Greys appear too with all the more sinister elements of this trope
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Tau have grey skin, dark eyes, and no nose, but they are taller than typical Greys, and have hoofed feet (They are evolved from grazing ruminants and uplifted through the pheremone glands of a giant insect). Though their vessels are not saucers, they favor smooth, rounded shapes, and their technology looks more advanced than the humans' ([[UsedFuture long story on that one]]). The Tau are not so much about abducting people as they are about welcoming them into their [[TheFederation empire]], [[JoinOrDie whether they want to or not]]. They subvert the trope by being relatively naive and idealistic in a thoroughly GrimDark setting - they justify orbital bombardment and sterilization as being "[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for the Greater Good]]" rather than killing out of xenophobia.
*
* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', The Greys are TheFairFolk conforming to the modern equivalent of Faerie and Faerie Abduction myths. Well, at least the ''confirmed'' ones are. The books point out that there ''could'' be real aliens, and you're free to include them in your game if you want.
** The stereotypical Roswell Greys are later confirmed as actually existing in the ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' book ''Summoners''. And so is the Chupacabra, although this version looks more like a sabertoothed canine than the "vampire Grey" of popular culture, presumably based on apocryphal accounts of autopsied Chupacabra corpses that resembled a unknown species of canine.
* The RPG ''Dark Conspiracy'' features Greys as one of several extraterrestrial races the player-characters can encounter.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' has the Inheritors, [[spoiler: who are actually post-Singularity ''humans'']].
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' features Greys in some of it's settings. In GURPS Black Ops, the Greys are an amoral race stranded on Earth, and prone to abducting and enslaving people and performing bizarre experiments while waiting for their SOS to reach their homeworld. The Black Ops Conspiracy seeks to eliminate them before the Rescue ship arrives. In GURPS Atomic Horror, the Greys are known as "Alphans", and abduct people to extract genetic information, which they use to create new members of their species.
* In TabletopGame/JAGSWonderland, the Greys are [[spoiler:humans who have been altered by Project Pagan to be something the Caretakers can tolerate.]]
*
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the derro take numerous traits from them, such as abducting humans for disturbing experiments in the middle of the night and resembling small humanoids with pupiless eyes. However, they're actually a race of degenerate fey that come from BeneathTheEarth instead. Actual Greys appear too with all the more sinister elements of this trope like BlueAndOrangeMorality, nightmarish experiments involving abduction onto strange vessels, PsychicPowers and enigmatic origins.
* Transhumans in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' engineered biomorphs based on Greys, officially they're based on DNA of 100% human origin, but some half-serious conspiracy theories claim they were spliced with genetic material recovered from Roswell. Given how little extraterrestrial life in the setting resembles Terran life in general (the only living sophonts contacted look like giant slime molds), it's unlikely that particular theory is true.
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* The greys show up in the {{Tabletop RPG}}s ''{{TabletopGame/Alternity}}'' and later ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' under the name Fraal. Most are in the wise and benevolent mode, studying the effects of alien intervention on humanity, while trying to safeguard them from aliens with less benign intentions... but some extremists believe that humanity is an inferior race that should be subjugated. However, this is just their default version; at least one campaign setting (for ''D20 Future'') has them as conspirators implied to be plotting to conquer Earth.
** Though they look considerably more humanoid than does the Grey at the top of the page: they have human skin tones and generally wear clothing.
*** Much closer to the mark, the Greys appear in the Alternity campaign setting ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', which was a conspiracy game - sort of like a table-top ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''.
*** One Monstrous Compendium annual supplement imported the Fraal into ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' as stranded dimensional travelers.
** ''TabletopGame/StarDrive'' had the fraal (though human-fraal interactions ''were'' heavily modified, in part because the combination of human and fraal technology led to the eponymous Stardrive once the fraal in the Solar System made public FirstContact). It also had the thaal, the (as of the chronologically latest update to the setting) unknown de-facto leaders of the invading Externals. [[spoiler:Kinda. The thaal had another name: dark fraal. They were actually another branch of the fraal species, the priestly caste that had won a civil war and driven off the scientific caste, which then developed into the nomadic fraal culture]].
* In ''[[TabletopGame/BigEyesSmallMouth BESM 3rd Edition]]'', one of the racial templates is in fact, a Grey.
* The "''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' meets ''Series/TheXFiles''" {{RPG}} ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' has the Greys as a mask worn by the Mi-gou, a race of fungus-like aliens with sinister intentions. They struck a deal with Majestic-12 (Delta Green's "replacement") and regularly supply them with reality-bending technology.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' newcomers the Tau are close to this trope (perhaps the original Greys got purged by the Imperium of Man?). The Tau have grey skin, dark eyes, and no nose, but they are taller than typical Greys, and have hoofed feet (They are evolved from grazing ruminants and uplifted through the pheremone glands of a giant insect). Though their vessels are not saucers, they favor smooth, rounded shapes, and their technology looks more advanced than the humans' ([[UsedFuture long story on that one]]). The Tau are not so much about abducting people as they are about welcoming them into their [[TheFederation empire]], [[JoinOrDie whether they want to or not]]. They subvert the trope by being relatively naive and idealistic in a thoroughly GrimDark setting - they justify orbital bombardment and sterilization as being "[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for the Greater Good]]" rather than killing out of xenophobia.
* The Ka Luon from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''.
* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', The Greys are TheFairFolk conforming to the modern equivalent of Faerie and Faerie Abduction myths. Well, at least the ''confirmed'' ones are. The books point out that there ''could'' be real aliens, and you're free to include them in your game if you want.
** The stereotypical Roswell Greys are later confirmed as actually existing in the ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' book ''Summoners''. And so is the Chupacabra, although this version looks more like a sabertoothed canine than the "vampire Grey" of popular culture, presumably based on apocryphal accounts of autopsied Chupacabra corpses that resembled a unknown species of canine.
* The RPG ''Dark Conspiracy'' features Greys as one of several extraterrestrial races the player-characters can encounter.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' has the Inheritors, [[spoiler: who are actually post-Singularity ''humans'']].
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' features Greys in some of it's settings. In GURPS Black Ops, the Greys are an amoral race stranded on Earth, and prone to abducting and enslaving people and performing bizarre experiments while waiting for their SOS to reach their homeworld. The Black Ops Conspiracy seeks to eliminate them before the Rescue ship arrives. In GURPS Atomic Horror, the Greys are known as "Alphans", and abduct people to extract genetic information, which they use to create new members of their species.
* In TabletopGame/JAGSWonderland, the Greys are [[spoiler:humans who have been altered by Project Pagan to be something the Caretakers can tolerate.]]
* The Greydle archetype in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' TCG is a race of slime-like Grey aliens in their natural form. This is made evident in the artwork for Greydle Impact.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the derro take numerous traits from them, such as abducting humans for disturbing experiments in the middle of the night and resembling small humanoids with pupiless eyes. However, they're actually a race of degenerate fey that come from BeneathTheEarth instead. Actual Greys appear too with all the more sinister elements of this trope like BlueAndOrangeMorality, nightmarish experiments involving abduction onto strange vessels, PsychicPowers and enigmatic origins.
* Transhumans in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' engineered biomorphs based on Greys, officially they're based on DNA of 100% human origin, but some half-serious conspiracy theories claim they were spliced with genetic material recovered from Roswell. Given how little extraterrestrial life in the setting resembles Terran life in general (the only living sophonts contacted look like giant slime molds), it's unlikely that particular theory is true.
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* The greys show up in the {{Tabletop RPG}}s ''{{TabletopGame/Alternity}}'' and later ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' under the name Fraal. Most are in the wise and benevolent mode, studying the effects of alien intervention on humanity, while trying to safeguard them from aliens with less benign intentions... but some extremists believe that humanity is an inferior race that should be subjugated. However, this is just their default version; at least one campaign setting (for ''D20 Future'') has them as conspirators implied to be plotting to conquer Earth.
** Though they look considerably more humanoid than does the Grey at the top of the page: they have human skin tones and generally wear clothing.
*** Much closer to the mark, the Greys appear in the Alternity campaign setting ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'', which was a conspiracy game - sort of like a table-top ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''.
*** One Monstrous Compendium annual supplement imported the Fraal into ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' as stranded dimensional travelers.
** ''TabletopGame/StarDrive'' had the fraal (though human-fraal interactions ''were'' heavily modified, in part because the combination of human and fraal technology led to the eponymous Stardrive once the fraal in the Solar System made public FirstContact). It also had the thaal, the (as of the chronologically latest update to the setting) unknown de-facto leaders of the invading Externals. [[spoiler:Kinda. The thaal had another name: dark fraal. They were actually another branch of the fraal species, the priestly caste that had won a civil war and driven off the scientific caste, which then developed into the nomadic fraal culture]].
* In ''[[TabletopGame/BigEyesSmallMouth BESM 3rd Edition]]'', one of the racial templates is in fact, a Grey.
* The "''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' meets ''Series/TheXFiles''" {{RPG}} ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' has the Greys as a mask worn by the Mi-gou, a race of fungus-like aliens with sinister intentions. They struck a deal with Majestic-12 (Delta Green's "replacement") and regularly supply them with reality-bending technology.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' newcomers the Tau are close to this trope (perhaps the original Greys got purged by the Imperium of Man?). The Tau have grey skin, dark eyes, and no nose, but they are taller than typical Greys, and have hoofed feet (They are evolved from grazing ruminants and uplifted through the pheremone glands of a giant insect). Though their vessels are not saucers, they favor smooth, rounded shapes, and their technology looks more advanced than the humans' ([[UsedFuture long story on that one]]). The Tau are not so much about abducting people as they are about welcoming them into their [[TheFederation empire]], [[JoinOrDie whether they want to or not]]. They subvert the trope by being relatively naive and idealistic in a thoroughly GrimDark setting - they justify orbital bombardment and sterilization as being "[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for the Greater Good]]" rather than killing out of xenophobia.
* The Ka Luon from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''.
* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', The Greys are TheFairFolk conforming to the modern equivalent of Faerie and Faerie Abduction myths. Well, at least the ''confirmed'' ones are. The books point out that there ''could'' be real aliens, and you're free to include them in your game if you want.
** The stereotypical Roswell Greys are later confirmed as actually existing in the ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' book ''Summoners''. And so is the Chupacabra, although this version looks more like a sabertoothed canine than the "vampire Grey" of popular culture, presumably based on apocryphal accounts of autopsied Chupacabra corpses that resembled a unknown species of canine.
* The RPG ''Dark Conspiracy'' features Greys as one of several extraterrestrial races the player-characters can encounter.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' has the Inheritors, [[spoiler: who are actually post-Singularity ''humans'']].
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' features Greys in some of it's settings. In GURPS Black Ops, the Greys are an amoral race stranded on Earth, and prone to abducting and enslaving people and performing bizarre experiments while waiting for their SOS to reach their homeworld. The Black Ops Conspiracy seeks to eliminate them before the Rescue ship arrives. In GURPS Atomic Horror, the Greys are known as "Alphans", and abduct people to extract genetic information, which they use to create new members of their species.
* In TabletopGame/JAGSWonderland, the Greys are [[spoiler:humans who have been altered by Project Pagan to be something the Caretakers can tolerate.]]
* The Greydle archetype in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' TCG is a race of slime-like Grey aliens in their natural form. This is made evident in the artwork for Greydle Impact.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the derro take numerous traits from them, such as abducting humans for disturbing experiments in the middle of the night and resembling small humanoids with pupiless eyes. However, they're actually a race of degenerate fey that come from BeneathTheEarth instead. Actual Greys appear too with all the more sinister elements of this trope like BlueAndOrangeMorality, nightmarish experiments involving abduction onto strange vessels, PsychicPowers and enigmatic origins.
* Transhumans in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' engineered biomorphs based on Greys, officially they're based on DNA of 100% human origin, but some half-serious conspiracy theories claim they were spliced with genetic material recovered from Roswell. Given how little extraterrestrial life in the setting resembles Terran life in general (the only living sophonts contacted look like giant slime molds), it's unlikely that particular theory is true.
