As some of you may have noticed, I took two weeks off at the end of September. During that time I was traveling, walking and taking trains in Scandinavia with my parents, my brother, and my partner Emily. We started in Stockholm, then visited Göteborg and Malmö before crossing the Øresund to go to Copenhagen. We also took a day trip to Uppsala in there; my parents were impressed at my initiative in planning to visit the city, but in all honesty 85% of my reasoning was that Vaesen is set there. Nevertheless. We visited some incredible cities, ate some incredible food, saw fantastic bicycle infrastructure, and spent two weeks doing something very different.

Not entirely different, though. Sweden is the home of Free League and Denmark is the origin country of LARP camp, so of course I couldn’t take a trip like this one without visiting some gaming stores. What I experienced was quite a bit different than the norm in the US…and to be honest, better in a lot of ways. Given that I had just gone over the landscape of RPG retail maybe a month before, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to bring the Guide for the Perplexed series to Scandinavia for a little bonus.