Name: Game Designer Talk & Game Session: "Five Fires" Hip-Hop TTRPG
Start: 2026-03-14T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-14T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Side Quest Books & Games

Game Designer Talk & Game Session: "Five Fires" Hip-Hop TTRPG

Join celebrated designer Quinn Murphy for a discussion of his hip-hop game "Five Fires" with Heather! Sign up to play after.
About this Event

Thoughtcrime Games (aka Quinn Murphy) has a new hip-hop game — and he's gonna talk about it with us!

Designer Quinn Murphy will join Side Quest's Heather Silva to talk about his inspiration for this game, and his approach to game design more broadly. After the chat, Quinn will run a session for those who would like to play!

Agenda:

7-8pm, panel discussion
8:30-10pm, game session

Ticket options:

$5 Panel only, redeemable as store credit
$10 Panel + game session, $5 still redeemable as store credit

ABOUT THE GAME

As part of a crew of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers, you deal with the problems of your life. Your art helps you heal and deal with the stress, but that same art also moves those around you. Your art can shake up the system. It can change the world!
But before it does all that, it changes you.
Heavily inspired by Beat Street and Wild Style, Five Fires gives players the tools to build their own cities and grow within short 6 session campaigns to see how they can influence the place that their character lives.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Quinn Murphy's (founder of Thoughtcrime Games) journey with RPGs started when he "inherited" his brother's copy of Chainmail at the age of 11 Since then, he's written for a wide range of products and companies, including (but not limited to): Paizo (Pathfinder, Starfinder), WotC (Dragon Magazine), Kobold Press(Lost City, Kobold Quarterly), Magpie Games (Our Last Best Hope), Onyx Path Publishing (Trinity Continuum: Aeon), Simon & Schuster (The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book). He loves TTRPGs of all shapes and sizes and loves the thrill of finding the perfect form-factor to express a setting or idea. He believes that Imagination is for Everyone.

ABOUT THE VENUE

Side Quest Books & Games is a woman-and-queer-owned fantasy shop for magical books, indie TTRPGs, and nerdy knick-knacks. It is located on the balcony level of Union Square's Bow Market in Somerville. (Please visit bowmarketsomerville.com for parking and transportation info.) Outside food & drink are allowed in. Masks are optional for this event, but please let us know and stay home if you fall ill.