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# Disregard the previous rule if the enslaved individual is ObviouslyEvil and clearly not the type to feel gratitude. Instead, if that’s the case, I will not buy them. Let some other villain hopeful be the one to feel their wrath once they get their freedom.

# Unless Immortality comes with absolute supernatural power, I will have a method to kill myself should the need arise. Being totrtured for eternity would be bad.

# Related to the above, I will make sure my Legions of Terrpr know what the doctor's family looks like. They will be required to check and double-check for disguises to make sure the person they're kidnapping is not actually a member of the Hero's party in disguise.

# Related to the above, I will make sure my Legions of Doom know what the doctor's family looks like. They will be required to check and double-check for disguises to make sure the person they're kidnapping is not actually a member of the Hero's party in disguise.

# I will have my Legions of Doom regularly sweep the realm to exterminate hordes of monsters. Not only will this deny the Hero and his party valuable experience, it makes for good PR from the local towns and settlements.
# Additionally, I will hire neutral adventurers to speak with the locals and accomplish anything they may need, so that the Hero won't be able to complete any quests that might give him good loot to deal with my Legions of Doom.

# I will never force innocent people into my Legions of Doom, no matter how skilled in combat or sports they may be. Instead I will only use the worst scum of society. Sure they have a higher tendency to backstab, but that's what brainwashing is for.

# Related to the above, I will not be the one to give the winner his prize personally, just in case the winner only wanted to get close enough to kill me. If possible, I will let my traitorous advisor do it under the pretence of pretending to be me. Of course, also make sure to thoroughly analyse ''how'' the winner fought and won, so I can [[TacticalRockPaperScissors train in what to do against his style]] in case we do eventually end up battling.

# Related to the above, I will not be the one to give the winner his prize personally, just in case the winner only wanted to get close enough to kill me. If possible, I will let my traitorous advisor do it under the pretense of pretending to be me.

# Though I'm an evil overlord, I should consider that there are methods other than violence to keep my Empire in check. A good military is always useful, but monopolizing travel or medicine is a lot less expensive and arguably more effective.

# Disregard the previous rule if the enslaved individual is ObviouslyEvil and clearly not the type to feel gratitude. Instead, if that’s the case, I will not buy them. Let some other villain hopeful be the one to feel their wrath once they get their freedom.

# If there is a prophecy regarding the Hero's journey and what he is meant to do, I will not concoct or spread a counter-prophecy that [[HeroWithBadPublicity paints him in a bad light]]. Because as the Hero fulfills the true prophecy, and the counter-prophecy remains unfulfilled, people will start to question the motives and me and my seers.

# If I don't need to present in the location of a ritual I need completed to accomplish my EvilPlan, I won't suddenly teleport there just to micromanage and belittle the mage performing the ritual. At best it will throw off his concentration and cause the ritual to fail. At worst the whole thing could blow up in both our faces, literally and fatally.

# Aside from my five-year-old advisor, I will not in any way conscript ChildSoldiers. Nine times out of ten the Hero is a FriendToAllChildren, and forcing kids to something so evil is only going to send him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge that will ruin whatever clandestine operation I was going to send the kids on.

# If I heart that the leader of a large settlement has just claimed to have become an Overlord (they need not be evil), but hear from some merchant that the leader only did so through the aid of a powerful high-ranking monster... I will not trust this information. I will instead send spies to the rival Overlord's settlement to ascertain the truth. Chances are said rival spread that story himself for one reason or another.

# Related to the above, I will not be the one to give the winner his prize personally. If possible, I will let my traitorous advisor do it under the pretense of pretending to be me.
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