Ry
Explorer
On a whim, I cruised by Peter Anspach's Evil Overlord List the other day, and I realized that I had quite a few things that I disagreed with on that list. But generally the advice is sound, and the list hasn't been updated in ages.
Here's the deal: I'm going to go through the list 1 to 100, and add a few extra notes here and there on how to be an Evil Overlord without ignoring some basic and sound principles of workplace dynamics, effective governance, public relations, and so on. If you've read it, you'll note that Sun Tzu's art of war developed similar addenda. My notes will be labelled R1, R2, R3, R4 to distinguish them from the original list.
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Sound advice, but there needs to be a note here.
R1. My Legions of Terror will not be called Legions of Terror. I want them to have good morale and face as little resistance as possible from the populace at large. They will be called the Emergency Response Force or some similarly reassuring an official-souding title, with a reassuring acronym, like "ERF."
Here's the deal: I'm going to go through the list 1 to 100, and add a few extra notes here and there on how to be an Evil Overlord without ignoring some basic and sound principles of workplace dynamics, effective governance, public relations, and so on. If you've read it, you'll note that Sun Tzu's art of war developed similar addenda. My notes will be labelled R1, R2, R3, R4 to distinguish them from the original list.
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Peter Anspach said:
Sound advice, but there needs to be a note here.
R1. My Legions of Terror will not be called Legions of Terror. I want them to have good morale and face as little resistance as possible from the populace at large. They will be called the Emergency Response Force or some similarly reassuring an official-souding title, with a reassuring acronym, like "ERF."
