He is the older brother of Tommy Staaff Karlsson. He is studying to be a teacher
(2003) at the university in Karlstad.
He finds the history of the 20th century to be interesting and
especially the period during the great wars.
He is closely related to the liberal Prime minister Karl Staaff who ruled
Sweden through the years of 1905-1906 and 1911-1914.
He started in his early teens with role playing games. Like many others
he found the famous "Dungeons and Dragons" to be a great game. In his
role-playing group you could find Robert P. Olsson, Sebastian Bengtsson, Tommy Karlsson, Joakim Bengtsson,
and Daniel Antonsson.