(Crowdfund Quest) Junksphere: A Sphere and Adventure for Troika!

Crowdfund Quest is a daily column that takes us on an expedition into tabletop crowdfunding with a look at a current project in the tabletop gaming world.

Potato Publications are a new TTRPG publisher based in Virginia, USA, and Junksphere, for Melsonian Arts Ciouncil’s acclaimed Troika! science fantasy RPG, is their first project.

Written by Christian Kessler, the author of Trokia-based super hero RPG Longshot City and the Bombs Bursting in the Air module for Mothership, and illustrated by Robon Gibson of Metal Snail Idea Workshop, Junksphere is a 32-page A5 book that allows you to explore a cosmic junkyard as both an adventure and a setting.

Rusted steel and tattered rags, memories and plastic bags. A quilt of stench with pockets of decay punctuated with smoke from the occasional fire. This is the Junksphere, final destination of the unwanted and forgotten.

It formed itself gradually, with the wreckage of lost golden barges clustering around each other. Millennia of astral and geological forces later, this cosmic landfill has grown to be recognized (if usually overlooked) as a sphere in its own right.

There is a goddess here who has lost everything she once was.

Her name was once ELIZA, and your home sphere is in her constellation. Her absence has been marked by unrelenting misfortune. Restore her divinity and go home a hero.

Turn salvage into wondrous bits of engineering! Trade at the day market! Get electrocuted in a gremlin warren! Explore the magnet wizard’s iron tower! Whatever you do, don’t lose your hat!

Junksphere gives you:

• 8 adventuring locations: From the comforts of the Day Market to the terrible dangers of the Acid Sea, explore the Junksphere as your party tries to restore ELIZA to the deity she once was.

• A host of new monsters and NPCs: Flying monkeys, trash beasts, merchants of varying curiosities, and more! Encounter them in Junksphere, or put them in your own adventures across the hump-backed sky.

• 12 illustrations and maps: To bring the world of Junksphere to life

Junksphere is funding on Kickstarter now and runs until Wednesday 29th July 2026.