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SeptimusHeap
MOD
(Edited uphill both ways)
2018-11-29 23:43:54
Well, the Evil Overlord List was written by other people, but we do have a list at TV Tropes "How to" Guides.
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Arivne
Since: Jan, 2001
2018-11-30 00:08:31
A couple of ways that list could be used by the heroes:
- They could "reverse engineer" the standard tropes that the list is based on by reversing the advice. This would tell them what a standard Villain will do.
- By reading the list, they could figure out how a villain could avoid the standard mistakes that villains make and try to prepare for the villain doing that.
Gofastmike
Since: Mar, 2017

I was looking at the Evil Overlord List, and was wondering if there was any way that it could be used by the heroes as well?note If not, is there some other page that could serve a similar purpose?