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** The "[http://www.herogames.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-22741.html When I Am The Benevolent Ruler]" list begins with, "As a general rule, I will remember that I am not the [[Evil Overlord]], and should avoid doing things that confuse people on this point."
*** Something about this list makes this troper feel like it was written by [[Discworld|Lord Vetinari]], particularly lines like "The Evil Overlord kills for fun and profit. The Good Overlord kills for the good of his nation".
*** I will try to be as [[Lawful Good]] as possible and to be a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]. Being [[Lawful Evil]] is obviously out of the question but it would most likely do me some good that I not become [[Lawful Neutral]] either. (In other words, don't assume that doing whats Lawful and doing whats right are always the same.) If my lands legal rules are forcing the people who serve me to say [[Screw
**** Besides one other advantage to being a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] is that if you do a good enough job at it even IF you have to deny the heroes for requesting your aid there is actually a good chance you WON'T be made out to look like a bad guy. (But you should still be careful about it as one showing of a bad timely opposition can go horribly wrong.)
*** One point was [[Double Subverted]] over the course of two seperate E. Nesbit stories. In one, the King and Queen vow to invite ''everyone'' to their daughter's christening, but the evil fairy's invitation gets lost in the mail, and she crashes the party and curses the girl. In another, they invite ''no'' fairies, only for them to show up anyway. The evil fairy, the same one as before, curses the girl, and the next one steps up, and the king actually ''puts his hand over his mouth'' and convinces the assembled fairies they'll go out like a candle if they break the tradition of one curse per christening. They all leave.<ref>Both stories took place in the same continuity, though I can't recall which was first, and the monarchs of the second are reacting to the experiences of the first.</ref>
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* If I come to my trusted uncle with some great secret that I haven't told to anybody, and he asks me: "[[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]?" I will reply "Yes," and proceed to list off the names of everyone else I trust. On the off chance that he was the one responsible for the secret in question and is trying to eliminate witnesses, he will have to choose between simply letting me go or hunting down everybody else on my list.
* If possible; my team will consist only of mature, well-adjusted adults as emotionally unstable teenagers are all too easily lured to the dark side. If having an emotionally unstable teenager on my team is unavoidable, he will be encouraged to come straight to me with whatever is troubling him, I will do my best to help rather than dismissing his fears and he will under no circumstances be allowed to spend any time alone with some creepy old guy.
== Other Characters ==
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