Grey Area Gaming Press

08/09/2022

Messing around with the art generator AI on Midjourney.com and created some pretty sick art for the main book.

03/23/2022

A small sample of what's on the way soon. This is a system-agnostic print and play starship battlemap suitable for pirates, smugglers, or adventurers in any space opera setting. Also includes ready-to-use files for VTTs including Foundry, Roll20, Fantasy Grounds and Fantasy Grounds Unity.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/390494?affiliate_id=457252

Barrier Freighter - A 10" x 38" starship map set on a 20" x 50" nebula / space background. Rooms include a main bridge, two gunner seats, en

10/18/2021

Messing around with some dynamic lighting on Foundry VTT. Created this cyberpunk-esque map using Arkenforge, then exported to Foundry, set to night, and plugged in and modified the individual light sources.

10/15/2021

Hoping to show some love and support for one of our fellow Aces. Appalachian horror, just in time for Halloween!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/holler-an-appalachian-apocalypse-for-savage-worlds

A Savage Worlds roleplaying game by Appalachian poet & professor, Tim Earley.

06/01/2021

This is a deckplan for a Barrier Freighter from our Phage setting, designed using the Arkenforge Master's Toolkit and the new Sci-Fi Essentials pack. By the time the Kickstarter launches, we hope to include a full book of maps like these as well as image files that GMs can either print out as full color battle maps or use for their VTT format of choice.

Entry is via airlocks which lead into the lower deck cargo / hangar area and the engine room where the ship's barrier drive is located. Ladders lead up to a main deck where you will find the bridge, most operating and tactical systems, and crew rec areas. More ladders lead to the upper deck which is mostly reserved for crew cabins and cryo pods. This model also features a captain's suite and a small garden for growing emergency food, though most vegetation that can survive in hyperspace is not pleasant to most panhuman palates.

The cryo station is deliberately positioned as far from the airlocks as possible, as these are first targets for boarders. A ship without functioning cryo pods can't effectively flee into hyperspace, as prolonged exposure to its bizarre warping energies afflicts sentients with a condition called the Phage, whose symptoms begin with mild hallucinations and irritability and end with homicidal rage and eventual blindness. Standard travel procedure is three crew in cryo, three out with shifts changing every six hours. The extra pod is reserved for guests, prisoners, or to replace a damaged pod during an emergency.

03/15/2021

We got shipping confirmation on these immersive battlemaps today. Looking forward to using these for playtests and at cons once in-person gaming is a thing again.

https://yarrostudios.com/

Yarro Studios was founded to bring you the most innovative and cost effective goods for gaming. What started as an adventure into better mapping alternatives for Dungeon and Dragons has turned into something more. Come join us and make sure to subscribe to be the first to find about about new produc...

03/15/2021

This looks awesome.

A Sci-fi map builder and audio manager, plus up to four content packs: Sci-Fi Essentials, Cyberpunk, Deep Space, and Wasteland.

01/24/2021

A few WIP layout samples from Phage.

12/27/2020

Exciting news this morning! We got the go-ahead from Pinnacle Entertainment Group, and Grey Area Gaming Press LLC is now an official licensee of Savage Worlds via their Ace Licensing program!

12/24/2020

If you can read this message, thank you for liking this page. I'm excited to announce that our flagship project looks like it might be a go, pending approval of licensing a system to power it.

Phage Space Opera

The spacers of Phage live in a distant future in which advanced technology exists alongside unspeakable alien horrors and callous, dystopian governments. The setting is predominantly space opera, but blends the familiar conventions of that genre with elements of Lovecraftian horror and cyberpunk to create something darker and grittier. The earth humans knew was conquered long ago by a corrupt, warmongering civilization, and humanity's descendants are but one of many subjugated peoples scattered throughout colonized space and treated little better than vermin by the dominant alien culture.

Hyperspace, the strange parallel dimension that makes interstellar travel possible, spawns creatures and hazards that can easily end a crew's lives or drive them to madness. But to those who lost their homeworlds to the expansion of the Collective, the opportunity to fly across the stars in spite of the danger is one to be seized and appreciated — for those with the courage and imagination to exist outside the Collective's shadow, the chance to make a score big enough to buy sustainable independence is a rare diamond worth searching for amid the grit and the rust. The setting takes its name from a terrifying malady that afflicts those exposed to the bizarre warping energies of hyperspace, consuming the mind and the body and driving the victim to homicidal rage and eventual blindness. Fear of this occupational hazard is ubiquitous among those who survive by doing business in the trade lanes.

Artist Credit: "A Fate Worse than Death" by Fernando Ong.

12/24/2020