Posted by Ravyn on June 16, 2013
Originally posted July 31, 2011.
I’ve talked a good amount about messing with the minds of your opponents. But there’s one thing I’ve found that tends to be really good for the job with minimum effort—no monetary outlay, no risks of experiments going horribly wrong, just a little thought and a little [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on June 2, 2013
The Generic Villain continues a point-by-point facedown and update of that reference material of all baddies with imperial ambitions, The Evil Overlord List.
41. Destroy all time-travel devices once power is secure. Heck, why wait? See how many time-travel devices you can work into the collateral damage while you’re still taking over—don’t [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on May 19, 2013
Taking a break from the Evil Overlord List to talk about something near and dear to our hearts—keeping those blasted protagonists out of our hair. Sometimes, we just need to stall the living daylights out of them. We know we probably can’t kill them, or at least not all of them; we know that we [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on May 5, 2013
The Generic Villain continues a point-by-point facedown and update of that reference material of all baddies with imperial ambitions, The Evil Overlord List.
36. No imprisoning members of the same party in the same cell block, never mind the same cell; if they’re important prisoners, have the only key on your person. THIS. Yes, [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on April 21, 2013
The Generic Villain continues a point-by-point facedown and update of that reference material of all baddies with imperial ambitions, The Evil Overlord List.
30. Deprive the heroes of their needed comic relief by preemptively executing all bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards and cowardly thieves. I have two problems with this statement. One, unless done with [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on April 7, 2013
UZ asks (in response to one of the Management’s posts, but hey, if it gets the mail-slot going…)
How do you get a PC to accept mind control? How do you sell servitude to someone who fights (theoretically) for freedom?
Dear UZ:
That’s a very good question. The PC is a special kind of protagonist—resistant if not [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on March 24, 2013
The Generic Villain continues a point-by-point facedown and update of that reference material of all baddies with imperial ambitions, The Evil Overlord List.
26. Think twice before ordering a prisoner sent to your bedchamber. …forget think twice, just plain don’t do it. One, even though it’s taken us years to get it, it’s never [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on March 10, 2013
The Generic Villain continues a point-by-point facedown and update of that reference material of all baddies with imperial ambitions, The Evil Overlord List.
21. Get a fashion designer for the minions, and make sure the uniforms are original—particularly not knockoffs of historical fighting forces that were themselves eventually defeated. This strategy wears pretty well, at [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on February 24, 2013
The Generic Villain continues a point-by-point facedown and update of that reference material of all baddies with imperial ambitions, The Evil Overlord List.
And on to Number 20. Seriously, Peter, what’s with the expandable ones three points in a row? Is it you being particularly open-ended, or me getting a bit too good at coming [...]
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Posted by Ravyn on February 10, 2013
The Generic Villain continues a point-by-point facedown and update of that reference material of all baddies with imperial ambitions, The Evil Overlord List.
So. Eighteen and nineteen, which basically boil down to “never have kids, ever” and… well.
My first problem with these things is that they’re pretty obnoxiously sexist. The son’s ineffectual and guaranteed to rebel [...]
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