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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2387412" data-attributes="member: 32740">Well since we're talking about TAKING OVER the world I am clearly not limited to being moral or ethical about it.  TAKING OVER means I don't have any qualms about violating rights (if I even acknowledge the existence of "rights") in order to gain control under MY thumb.My first moves would be the exercise of rather unsubtle violence.  I'm talking about political assassination of world leaders that I currently just don't like.  In other words, I would make it as deadly an evironment as possible for ANY AND ALL despots, dictators, fascists, warlords, and the like.  It is they who are most responsible for the worlds ills and since I don't have to be nice in ANY way, I won't be.  I'll go into their bedrooms using Teleportation, scrying, invisibilty, silence and simply scrag them where they lie.  One.  By.  One. I'll leave messages behind to explain what the replacements will do rather than simply pick up where the previous dictator left off.  If they fail to follow my "suggestions" I'll kill them too, and then leave another message.  They'll figure it out eventually after the second or third dictator dies a violent, silent death. As the real troublemakers start to fall in line then I'll simply start working my way up the chain using less and less violent methods.  I'll leave messages that simply leave no doubt what it is I want and what it means to fail to cooperate with me.  Want a little Urban Renewal?  A few cloudkills spells in the slums at night will help clear things up.  Want to provide a little more food somewhere as a "carrot" to go along with a stick?  Plant Growth. And of course I could use some assistance from others who are willing to "do what's necessary" to move the world in the direction I want. Direct control of the entire world in a benevolent dictatorship with myself as Maximum Leader for Life is probably impossible with only 6th level spells - and especially if I have to face interference from an MIB organization with their pathetic excuses about Morality.  But moving the world in a more positive direction that I approve of?  Not a problem.</blockquote>

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