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Celebrating the tercentenary of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792)
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In 2013 the tercentenary of the birth of the Third Earl of Bute is being celebrated across Britain with a series of events and new publications. Curators from Amgueddfa Cymru have contributed to a special publication published by Friends of the Luton Hoo Walled Garden, at one of Bute's former residencies. Maureen Lazarus will also give a lecture at Luton Hoo in the autumn.
Bute was a powerful figure in eighteenth century Britain, both as a politician and as a botanist. He was a friend and confidante of George III who encouraged him to become a politician. In May 1762 he became Prime Minister. However, Bute proved an unpopular leader. Bishop Warburton wrote at the time "Lord Bute is a very unfit man to be Prime Minister of England, first, he is a Scotchman; secondly, he is the King's friend; and thirdly he is an honest man."
After a year of political turmoil and dissention, Bute resigned his post. He retired from public life to his house at Highcliffe in Hampshire with his vast botanical library. Here he rekindled his former enthusiasm for botany. Bute worked on several botanical publications and was strongly influenced by the renowned Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus. Bute's best known publication is entitled Botanical Tables containing the different familys of British Plants distinguished by a few obvious parts of Fructification rang'd in a Synoptical method (1785). Its aim is to explain the principles of Linnaeus's new and controversial taxonomic system. Angueddfa Cymru is fortunate to own a complete set of this rare and exquisite publication.
John Miller (1715-1790) became the main artist of the Botanical tables, a huge task of over 600 illustrations detailing the sexual organs and their number to comply with the Linnaean system. The volumes cover the whole range of plant life from mosses, lichens and seaweeds to fungi and grasses, flowers and trees. Twelve copies of the Tables (each consisting of 9 volumes) were printed by Lord Bute at his own expense at a cost of £1,000.
In his retirement, Bute was quite isolated. He was closer to European rather than British botanists, perhaps partly as a result of his travels on the continent but probably partly due to his unpopularity in Britain. Curiously, he was never elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London or of the Society of Antiquaries, something which his role as a patron alone ought to have virtually assured him. In spite of this rejection, botany was, no doubt, a satisfying way for him to spend his time in later life in order to avoid the melancholy he referred to in the introduction to Botanical tables.
Bute was particularly keen to explain the taxonomic system to women since he felt that this "delightful part of nature" was peculiarly suited to the attention of the fair sex. Botany, under their protection, would soon become a fashionable amusement. True to this aim Bute presented seven out of the ten copies to women including Queen Charlotte and Catherine II, Empress of Russia.
In 1994 Amgueddfa Cymru acquired a complete copy of the Botanical tables. The curators of the collection, as part of their background research, decided to trace all 12 copies. So far ten sets have been traced, seven of which can be identified with their original recipients. Full details of this project may be found in this paper; Lazarus, M.H. and Pardoe, H.S. (2009) Bute's Botanical tables: dictated by Nature. Archives of natural history 36 (2): 277–298.
Heather Pardoe and Maureen Lazarus
week one of summer 2013
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It hasn't been our busiest week in terms of numbers but I can't blame our visitors for wanting to make the most of the lovely weather. Not being as frantic as we often are has meant that families have been able to spend a long time engaging with some lovely handling objects and learnt a lot about Bronze Age design. I have been tweeting pictures of people's creations every day, but here are two photos from the week.
Tomorrow we change activities to look at and make our own Bronze Age shields.
Also I wanted to mention a very exciting family treasure hunt we are running throughout the museum during the school holidays. Cardiff Bay Rotary Club have kindly donated some book tokens as prizes. Come and see us for more information.
Have a nice weekend
More Excting Summer Activities
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So the weather forecast is predicting rain next week which is fine as we have plenty going on at National Museum Cardiff throughout the school holidays.
Starting tomorrow and continuing on Sun 21st, Wednesday 24th, Thursday 25th and Friday 26th staff from the Clore Discovery Centre will be running noisy dinosaur workshops based on our newly published children's story book 'Albie the Adventurer'. The book was written by me (Grace Todd) and illustrated by local illustrator and designer Caroline Duffy (google her, she is great)
The workshops will be running at 11am, 1pm and 3pm on the days listed and can be booked at the front desk. They will be loud and lots of fun!
Hopefully see you there.
Gearing up for a summer of family learning activities
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Here in the Clore Discovery Centre we've been running round like crazy preparing to deliver a busy programme of Family Learning workshops throughout the summer holidays. Starting on Saturday 20th July we'll be running a different workshop every week for six weeks.
Have a look at the photo below for a taste of what we (you!) will be creating!
Every workshop links to an exhibtion,display or collection at National Museum Cardiff. The schedule for the six weeks is:
Week 1 (July 20th - 26th)Dress to Impress Bronze Age Style Visit the Mold Cape for inspiration to create your own lunula
Week 2 (July27th - Aug 2nd) Dress to Impress Bronze Age Style Visit the Mold Cape for inspiration to create your own Bronze Age Shield
Week 3 (Aug 3rd - 9th) Fishing for the Future
Discover what you can do to protect the fish in our seas and make some fish-inspired art to take home.
Week 4 (Aug 10th - 16th) Mughal India
Make your own story inspired by work in the exhibition.
Week 5 (Aug 17th - 23rd) Flying Lizards
Find out more about Pterosaurs and make a flying lizard to take home.
Week 6 (Aug 24th - Sept 1st) Pop Art
Make your own vinyl album cover inspired by works of art from the 'Swinging Sixties'.
These workshops will happen in the Clore Discovery Centre between 11am and 4pm
They are free, and are drop in sessions which means places may be limited at times! But worry not, we have a gallery full of awe inspring museum objects for you to explore through handling, as well as plenty of trails and worksheets.
Hope to see you during the Summer!
Dont forget to follow @cloreexplorer
Access to Museum Collections – online
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Professor Dimbledare of Warthogs University is a geneticist working on the evolution of parasites in insects. This is important because bee populations are currently declining partly due to being attacked by increasing numbers of parasites; this threatens human food production, as bees are the most important pollinators of many fruits and vegetables. Professor Dimbledare wants to find out whether there is historic evidence for temporary increases in parasite attacks on bees. He wants to look at museum collections worldwide and extract DNA from specimens. Where does he start looking for suitable collections?
Can you help me find...
This is a hypothetical scenario, but a typical example of the sort of enquiries frequently received by museum curators. Museums are being approached either through the mailing lists of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (which has a worldwide reach), the Natural Sciences Collections Association (UK), or – and this is really hard work – individually, one by one. When (15 long years ago) I undertook the research for my PhD I wrote to more than 20 individual botanic gardens around the world to ask if they had any clippings of a wonderful little fern-like plant called whisk fern (Psilotum nudum).
Museums are vast repositories of nature, and there are thousands of them. They document life on Earth (past and present) by housing specimens and associated data. Not all museums contain everything, but combined they represent a brilliant account of the natural history of a country and even our planet (see the Distributed National Collection article below).
Museum specimens are being sought for research projects, exhibitions in other museums, and by school teachers and university lecturers for education inside and out of the classroom. Museums are usually very happy to let people look at, study, and even borrow specimens. But finding an example of an animal, plant, fossil or mineral in a museum collection can be extremely difficult. The chances are you have some specimens in a museum near you – how do you find out where?
Internet data bases
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Both the scope and quality of databases vary. Some only list basic collections information and contact details of staff (e.g. Index Herbariorum and Registry of Biological Repositories). Others contain information about individual specimens, both living and fossil (e.g. GBIF, Geological Collections of Estonia); these types of data bases are created specifically for researchers. Others again try to capture the culture, history and natural history of an individual country (People's Collection Wales), aimed for use by the general public. The number of records in these data bases is huge, reaching into the billions.
There is, however, a discussion amongst scientists how much information we want to make available publicly. Sometimes it is not a good idea, for example, to publish information of where to find species that are endangered. Museums do have a responsibility to care for not only their collections, but also the conservation of living species. It would not be a good idea to alert everyone and their dog to the occurrence of species listed as threatened or endangered by CITES;because nobody would want to drive them closer to extinction through overcollecting.
So, where does this leave Professor Dimbledare? Increasingly there are attempts to include global information in data bases, so he should find it easier in the future to locate the specimens for his research. Some data bases are merging, e.g. Index Herbariorum and Registry of Biological Repositories. And in Wales, the People's Collection is currently being redeveloped to make it more user-friendly; in the near future it will be easier to upload and search for information on museum collections, including natural science collections. With increasing digitisation it gets easier all the time to locate museum specimens.
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Dwi newydd fod yn lloffa trwy'r dudalen blogie - dwi heb wneud ers sbel a mae'n wych gweld cymaint o flogwyr newydd, yn trafod pynciau newydd yma. Da iawn bawb!
Mae fy nghyfraniad i wedi bod braidd yn dameidiog, a dwi'n gobeithio y gallwch faddau hynny, annwyl ddarllenwyr.
Er ein bod ni wedi bod wrthi'n gwneud lot o waith caib a rhaw yma yn Sain Ffagan, mae'r rhan fwyaf ohono di bod y 'tu ôl i'r llen' - gwaith technegol, manwl, efo darnau mawr iawn o bapur, yn hytrach na gwrthrychau. 'Dyn ni wedi bod wrthi yn cynllunio, yn gwerthuso a chofnodi, ac yn fuan iawn y byddwn ni'n dechrau gweld newid go-iawn ar y safle yn ei sgîl.
Gwaith is-adeiledd ydi'r rhan fwyaf o'r hyn yr ydym wedi ei gwblhau, yn ogystal ag astudio dichonoldeb defnyddio signal 3G a wifi ar ein safle coediog, eang. 'Dyn ni hefyd wedi bod yn gweithio gydag ymgynghorydd mewn hygyrchedd, i ddysgu sut y gallwn ni wneud yr amgueddfa'n le mwy croesawgar i amrywiaeth fwy eang o bobloedd.
Ein bwriad ni yw i gadw naws arbennig yr amgueddfa, ond i wella'r cyfleusterau hefyd. 'Dyn ni'n trio bod mor agored a chyfranogol â phosib, felly 'dyn ni wedi bod yn gwrando ar farn gwahanol grwpiau mewn fforymau i bobl ifanc, athrawon a chrefftwyr. Mi fyddwn ni'n ail-wampio'r orielau hefyd, a dwi'n edrych ymlaen at gael gweld pa wrthrychau 'mae fy nghyd-weithwyr wedi eu dewis ar gyfer yr arddangosfeydd newydd.
Yn y cyfamser, liciwn i gadw mewn cysylltiad â chi trwy'r blog - ond sut?
A ddylwn i sgrifennu mwy am hanes yr adeiladau sydd yma'n barod? Neu ddangos yr rhai newydd wrth iddynt dyfu?
Ddylwn i adrodd y straeon mawrion, neu hanes y rhyfeddode dyddiol? Beth am ein cynllunie i gynnal nosweithie preswyl a pherfformiadau? Mwy o Duduriaid? Llai o Duduriad?
Dwi'n credu'n gryf y dylwn i ofyn, os nad ydw i'n gwybod. Felly dyma ofyn i chi:
- Beth hoffech chi ei weld ar y blog 'ma?
Gadwch sylw os oes barn neu gais gennych chi - dwi'n edrych ymlaen at gael clywed beth sydd gennych i'w ddweud.
Beans on Toast
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3 primary schools took part in activities exploring the new Beans on Toast exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff last week.
Pupils from Windsor Clive Primary School, Trelai Primary School and Ysgol Wirfoddol Abergwili explored where in the world our food comes from and how we can make sustainable choices about the food we buy. They then worked with an artist to create a 'World Food Stall' display to encourage discussion on the issues of food security back in school.
Funding was received to work with the artist through the British Ecological Society.
The exhibition will be open until 29 September 2013. Contact the Learning Department 029 2057 3240 if you would like to take part in future activities.
Theatre of insects
Thomas Moffet [Moufet, Muffet] (1553-1604), was a physician and naturalist. After graduating from Cambridge, he travelled abroad, gained the degree of MD in 1579 from Basel University and eventually established a successful medical practice in Frankfurt. In 1580 he visited Italy, where he studied the culture of the silkworm and developed an absorbing interest in entomology. By 1588 he had returned to England and secured a good practice, first in Ipswich and afterwards in London. On 22 December of that year he was admitted as a candidate of the College of Physicians, then became a fellow and eventually censor. In 1589 he was appointed to a committee responsible for compiling the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (1618) for the College of Physicians.
Moffet combined real literary aptitude with his interests in natural philosophy, publishing the lengthy poem, The Silkworms and their Flies, in 1599.
Theatre of Insects was published posthumously. In 1590 he had completed a compendious work on the natural history of insects, partly compiled from the unpublished writings of Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Moffet's friend [and fellow physician] Thomas Penny. After Moffet's death, this still unpublished manuscript (BL, Sloane MS 4014) came into the hands of his apothecary [Darnell], who sold it to Sir Theodore Mayerne, who published it in 1634 as Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum. It was translated into English by J. Rowland as The Theatre of Insects, or Lesser Living Creatures and appended to Edward Topsell's History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658).
We hold copies of both the 1634 and 1658 editions; the copy photographed here is one of the earlier editions.
These books, along with many other early natural history works, were bequeathed to the Library by Willoughby Gardner in 1953 [for more details visit our website or see The Willoughby Gardner Library: a collection of early printed books on natural history, by John R. Kenyon, published by Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru / National Museum Wales, 1982]
It has been supposed, on the basis of Moffet's interest in spiders that his daughter Patience was the 'little Miss Muffet' of the nursery rhyme; although some sources state this unlikely as the rhyme did not appear in print until 1805.
Biographical information taken from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Gwyddowyr Gwych yng Nghwm Rhondda
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Cystadleuaeth adeiladu nyth mawr.
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Hela bwystfilod bach – allwch chi weld y neidr filtroed?
Ysgol Gynradd Williamstown, yng Nghwm Rhondda, ddaeth yn gyntaf o'r chwedeg tri o ysgolion yng Nghymru a gymrodd ran yn ymchwiliad Bylbiau'r Gwanwyn yr Amgueddfa eleni.
Enillodd y dosbarth o Wyddonwyr Gwych daith natur i Sain Ffagan: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru, lle cawsant eu tystysgrifau. Fel rhan o'r daith, cawsant gyfle i astudio madfallod dŵr, chwilio am fwystfilod bach, gwylio ystlumod ac adeiladu nythod mawr yn y goedwig!
Athro'r Ardd: ''Cafodd pob un o'r disgyblion ddiwrnod gwych a dylen nhw fod yn falch iawn o'r ffordd maen nhw wedi cynrychioli eu hysgol. Roedd y safon yn uchel iawn eleni; mae'r ysgolion i gyd yn gwella wrth gofnodi eu data. Gwnaeth Williamstown yn arbennig o dda gyda'u cofnodi ac wedi bod yn frwdfrydig iawn o'r cychwyn fis Tachwedd diwethaf tan ddiwedd y gwanwyn – a ddaeth yn hwyr iawn eleni!"
Alison Hall, Athrawes yn Ysgol Gynradd Williamstown: "The pupils said it was the best day out they had ever had - they loved viewing the bat roost in particular! In terms of the investigation, the children have have loved the whole process from planting and recording to measuring and waiting for the first bloom to appear. It has been great for improving their science, numeracy and ICT skills. We are now really enthused about nature and the environment and are keen to set-up more outdoor investigations in our school grounds".
Os hoffech chi gymryd rhan yn y project hwn y tymor nesaf, llenwch y ffurflen gais ar-lein: www.amgueddfacymru.ac.uk/cy/1738/
I weld ein hadroddiad gwerthuso gan athrawon (Saesneg yn unig), cliciwch ar y ddolen hon: https://scan.wufoo.com/reports/spring-bulbs-for-schools-evaluation-report/
Fel y gwelwch o'r cwestiwn gwerthuso isod mae'r project yn drawsgwricwlaidd:
A species new to science!
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The first results and new species have now been published from the project on the Polychaetes of the Falkland Islands. The project, which started in 2011, intends to document the polychaetes (marine bristleworms) of the intertidal region around the islands, information that will help inform marine environmental work and improve future identification of the group in the area. Further details of the project can be found in a Rhagor article here and earlier blogs here that documented the fieldwork.
The new species, Micromaldane shackletoni, was named in recognition of the Shackleton Scholarship Fund who support the work. The species is of particular interest as it is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, which means that it produces eggs and sperm at the same time that fertilise internally. The larvae are then brooded inside the animal's tube until they are large enough to leave and build their own tube. This method of reproduction has only been reported once amongst other species in the same genus. To document the stages of reproduction involved using a scanning electron microscope to look in detail at the eggs and sperm (see photo) from inside the body, the developing larvae and other structures on the adult bodies (see photo of head). Animals are only 0.3mm wide and around 11m long. The species description and details have been published in the scientific journal Zootaxa.
Teresa Darbyshire
Pob cofnod
Ffotograffau Hanesyddol (Esmee Ffairburn)
Linking Natural Science Collections in Wales
Project Sain Ffagan Amgueddfa Werin Cymru Project Creu Hanes
Ymchwilio yn Ynysoedd Falkland
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|Discussing an impending Dominion attack, Bashir notes that two hours will not be long enough to get reinforcements from Bajor. Why don't they bring reinforcements in now? And what about Starfleet - Sisko has had the time to go all the way to Earth and back since the last episode, they could have massed whole fleets at the station by now.
When attacked by the Jem'Hadar, Sisko orders the shields up. But he already knows that the phased polaron beams used by the Dominion go through Federation shields. The Odyssey captain transferred shield power to the weapons because of this, which seems eminently sensible, so why isn't Sisko doing the same instead of wasting power on shields?
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Sisko and crew head off into the Gamma Quadrant to contact the mysterious Founders, rulers of the Dominion. To help them in their search, Sisko brings along a new toy - the USS Defiant, a Starfleet warship built to fight the Borg. But once in Dominion space the ship is quickly overwhelmed by the Jem'Hadar, and only Odo and Kira escape.
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Living With the Contradictions: A Human Potential Visionary Talks About Our Infinite Potential and How We Also Block Progress
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Last week I sat down for a telephone conversation with Joseph Chilton Pearce, an author who has had a big influence not only on my work, but on the way I have raised my children. He alerted me early on to the damage that hospital birthing, day care, television, and modern schooling do to the developing brain. A World War Two veteran, he could be considered one of the elders of the human potential movement, although he brings to it a sobriety bordering at times on pessimism. His books include The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and many more. His most recent is The Heart-mind Matrix: How the Heart can Teach the Mind New Ways to Think.
Charles Eisenstein: I just wanted to tell you, your work has had a huge impact on me.
Joseph Chilton Pearce: Oh, thank you, thank you. It has me too. (Chuckles)
CE: I often feel like things I write are from a place that I haven't arrived at yet, and that they're coming from a field, and the writing of those works is what pulls me to that field, even if I'm not there yet when I write it. Do you ever experience that?
JCP: Very, very much so. Something very similar to it. In fact one of the things I have found most surprising is to pick up my last two or three books and re-read them, and be so surprised at what I had said. I think, my god, where did this come from? It's as though it was the first time I've heard that, whatever the particular thing is. In fact, I think the business of memory...I've been wanting to do a paper on memory and duration. I think we need to expand our term "duration" to include an awful lot. Its a great extension and far more creative than our notion of the Akashic Records. And there really is something very similar to the Akashic Records. And that is involved in duration. Duration is really the source of all creativity. What I've been calling duration. We have no real term for it....If I could I would certainly try to get that little essay down about creativity and duration and what duration really means.
CE: I have just been looking at your book, Heart-Mind Matrix. I've been reading your books for decades now, and there are always two feelings I get that are somewhat contradictory. One is the tremendous possibility and latent potential that is in all of us, and when I tap into that, I have the feeling that everything is possible. On the other hand, there is kind of a feeling of doom around your writing: nature's plan has gone awry, humanity is degenerating, we have lost the capacities we once had, and these trends are, if anything, accelerating. I wonder, what about you? How do you resolve this contradiction? Do you just live with this contradiction? How do you feel about it now, personally?
JCP: My feeling for most of my life has been that we have an absolutely unlimited possibility within us, and an equal amount of self-imposed limitations. For every possibility, we have a self-imposed limitation. This is the story of our species; we have infinite potential, and yet we also have incredible impositions just blocking everything. From about ages 5 to 7, I had the idea that the sky was the limit, but then all of a sudden school came along, and with it came this enormous weight of restriction. Again, that's kind of the general story of our species.
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Katy Perry's Retro-Glam Getup
Katy's powder blue dress is a great alternative to the sparkly fit-and-flare styles that everyone will be wearing for the holidays. The lighter hue is totally unexpected, not to mention the fitted shape will show off your killer curves! We love how Katy added a fun headband but kept the rest of her accessories to a minimum.
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"I think it's pretty unacceptable to be honest. Why a drive-through for this? I'm sure I was not the only car to pass that line. I was the only one who got the drive-through for that," he told Sky Sports F1
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Has Mongoose Publishing Turned It Around?
Now, that's not to say that everything Mongoose ever did was crap; far from it! But, let's face it, Mongoose had its share of missteps. There was an edition of the Conan RPG that needed as much errata as Traveller 4th edition. There was the first edition of Mongoose RuneQuest, which managed to be disliked by old RuneQuest fans and garner mixed reviews at best from prospective new ones. You had a line of d20 product of varying quality (actually, what publishing involved in d20 in the last decade didn't?). There were some binding issues, and editing always seemed to be a shortcoming for Mongoose products, no matter how interesting they might otherwise have seemed.
Now, it sounds like I'm just slagging the beejeezus out of Mongoose Publishing, but that's not the case. In fact, I've been greatly surprised and pleased at the quality of content coming out of Mongoose recently. It started a while back with Dragon Warriors (via their Flaming Cobra line) and Traveller, two venerated RPGs named that I know had people praying "don't mess this up, please don't mess this up". Well, by all accounts, they didn't. Dragon Warriors has met with a warm critical reception, and Traveller is doing very well by all accounts. I even hear good things about the latest Earthdawn, which is done between Mongoose and Redbrick Ltd.
The most recent entry on the playing field for Mongoose is Mongoose RuneQuest II. I got to browse this last week, and let me tell you, Mongoose has really stepped it up here. They cleaned out a lot of the confusing rules, simplified skills and magic, and really made this a tight game again. I'm hearing positive feedback not only from long-time RQ fans, but from the newer ones as well!
If you're going to have properties like RuneQuest and Traveller, to my mind you have to hit it out of the park, period. There's no better way to alienate fans and incur nerdrage than to slap a beloved legacy name on an inferior or sub-par product. It looks like Mongoose is producing right now at a level worthy of those honorable RPG legacies.
That's not to say there still isn't some work to go in the editing department, but by and large, I think Mongoose is looking much better than ever before. Have they turned it around? I think they're on the right track, yes. Time will tell if the momentum and quality continue, but for now, cheers, Mongoose. You done good.
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- Allen Varney said...
You might also have mentioned the Mongoose edition of PARANOIA is the most highly rated of all the game's editions on the RPG.net Game Index. As I write, PARANOIA is rated #13 out of 13,962 products, and among 1,471 core rules sets it ranks #10:
- March 22, 2010 at 8:45 AM
- Zachary The First said...
Very true, Mr. Varney! That edition of Paranoia certainly enjoys a solid reputation, to say the least!
- March 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM
- Hammer said...
Turn it around?
Mongoose are one of the best publishers on the go just now. They have gone absolutely out of the way to correct the PR disaster over bindings and are still tracking people down and replacing their books.
Paranoia, Mongoose Traveller and the 2000AD products are all very solid games now (with Paranoia and Traveller making massive improvements over there previous editions). They are also one of the few English-language published who publish games in French and one of the few games companies which has survived outside of America, which deserves some plaudits.
They've already turned it around big time.
- March 22, 2010 at 1:46 PM
- Zachary The First said...
I'll mark that down as another yes vote..
- March 22, 2010 at 2:16 PM
- Christian said...
I'll always have a soft spot for Mongoose. Back when I was doing the lowly Scrollworks zine, they sent me stacks of review material. I told them I couldn't keep up, but they kept stoking me anyway. Nice fellows.
- March 22, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Red said...
And isn't Mongoose that Gygax Games is going to be working with... should anything ever come from Gygax Games again?
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- March 23, 2010 at 4:06 AM
- Sean said...
I just picked up Runequest II. I think it's the first Mongoose Product I've ever bought. I'm very pleased with it. It will be the next game I play.
Looking at the Mongoose website, I see an insanely aggressive publishing scedule. This month they plan to put out 13 books - for 5 different games! Who else does that? Does WOTC?
- March 23, 2010 at 9:04 AM
- sirlarkins said...
I always wanted to like Mongoose, but their continual screw-ups made it so difficult. The nadir for me was when I picked up the Shadizar city boxed set for the Conan RPG and it turned out the cartographer who did their poster map had simply copied the map off one of WOTC's "Map A Week" offerings. Mongoose produced a replacement map and promised a free copy to everyone who bought a boxed set, but I never received mine despite repeated requests. Then there was the whole let-down with their Lone Wolf RPG.
But like you say, they've finally turned things around. Dragon Warriors is awesome, and I really like their line of miniatures games too. Victory at Sea finally got me into naval wargaming after many years of looking for the right set of rules, for example. Go Mongoose! Now if I could only get that map...
- March 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM
- Gibbering Ghoul said...
Yes. Mongoose Traveller is what I was looking for with T4 and works for what I need out of the box. Dragon Warriors is nice and its good to see them continuing with non-RPGs like War at Sea and Battlefield.
MRQ2 looks good from all I've heard, though dropping an SRD was a disappointment.
There's also Lone Wolf finally seeming to come back right and a RPG for it almost out based on the gamebooks and cheap. Hopefully the regularly priced editions of the regular gamebooks will be out soonish, but getting a UK and a US publisher to bite at the same time has been problematic.
- March 23, 2010 at 5:56 PM
- Tyler said...
Like any gaming publisher, they've had their missteps, but frankly I always look at whatever Mongoose has out. They and Green Ronin, whom I've been fortunate enough to playtest for, are the two publishers that stand out from the pack for me. They've always been quick to errata rules, and more importantly in my opinion their backgrounds and campaigns have always been massively better than many competing offerings.
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Gotcha, so a glyph of Shield Wall, Devastate, and block along with putting the two points in Improved Disciplines. Sounds good!
Glyph of Devastate is a solid threat glyph and would serve well in a balanced set of glyphs.
Gotcha, so a glyph of Shield Wall, Devastate, and block along with putting the two points in Improved Disciplines. Sounds good!
If you're only going to have one of either shield wall or last stand, then I'd say last stand.
Go read this -> http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f97/6...ing-guide.html
Glyphs are better situationally for different things, I outline the glyphs and various uses, it's up to you to decide which ones are better for what fight.
For example: for my main "max survivability" setup, I use blocking, shield wall, and last stand. If I need threat I switch one of them out for devastate. Which one depends on what I am doing. We actually have 2 fury warriors that are very good with sunders, so I actually almost never need to use devastate in a raid because I put 1 up then before devastate comes up in my rotation again there's 4 more up anyways. This may differ for your raiding situation
However, my glyph setup for anub'arak adds is very different, I go with taunt, cleaving, and blocking. If you want max threat then blocking, devastate, and vigilance is probably the way to go. If you are on a boss where you need a taunt to land, glyph it.
There's not a set 3 glyphs that you are going to put in your glyph spaces and just keep there forever and ever and ever imo, at least not if you want to optimize your tanking ability.
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Why Last stand though? Isn't the ability to have less damage taken every 2 mins better than having your health increased? And if not, why?
because the last stand glyph has no downside, whereas shield wall is -20%, tbh it probably doesn't matter eitherway, and it kind of depends on how you use your cooldowns. Last stand can also act as kind of a heal, and gives your healers a much better buffer. Last stand is always the first oh shit button I hit. I actually don't have shield wall key bound, because typically I save it for specific times and am proactive about its use and am more conservative with it than I am laststand. The second I go "OH CRAP" I just instinctively reach for my last stand button. I suppose it could depend on playstyle and be kind of 6 of one half a dozen of the other.
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The way I use it is to proactively plan out where you use your cooldowns.
Every time you have to move or healers are going to have to move, or get feared, or there is a transition in positioning.
That is probably the most common time for tanks to die, during movement transitions while they're moving a boss(marrowgar p2>p1).
If you know where you are going to hit your cooldowns, and you can hit them every 1 minute, 0:00(last stand + enraged regen), 1:00(shield wall), 2:00(trinket then last stand), 3:00(shield wall)
If there's a soft-enrage: You hit deathbringer saurfang's 30% mark and he's got 85 or so BP(he's going to hit moderately hard).
If there is predictable incoming damage:
Heroic Northrend beasts, I take impales 5, 6, then 11, 12. With 1 second left on the timer I use Trinket(anything I'm using atm) Last Stand and Enraged regen. This takes care of both of the Impales.
For 11, 12, I pop shield wall just before #11 and then it makes #12 trivial.
This helps because when Dreadscale pops up, Last Stand is back up, and healers getting into positioning on that, +me taking Molten Spew, + melee damage is an easy way to die.
There are many many reasons to keep both of them and use them often. You're just that much easier to keep alive. It's YOUR job to stay alive, not the healers job to keep you alive.
Alright, that does sound like a good idea. I hate switching glyphs out though, cause it's harder for me to adjust so I think I'll do Last Stand, block, and devastate. Thanks guys
If your a main tank and often have the DPS/Heals to fill in, you can just as easily have your offspec become another tank spec with another set of glyphs more suited for a different kind of fight.
I'm still waiting for when an inscriptionist can drop a book to change glyphs on the spot.
There is something so appealing about backhanding someone across the face with a shield.
Early in this thread, I kept hearing talk about "oh shit" buttons. I'd say that a well played tank doesn't have "oh shit" buttons anymore, but rather proactive cooldowns to be used when the expected damage is high, the expected healing is low, or just to help the healers out when there's no expectation. If you wait to use your cooldowns reactively as an "oh shit" button, you aren't using them to your raid's best advantage.
To come back to the Original Topic;
Imp. Spell Reflect has 2 portions; the 4% miss and the party/raid reflection.
Unfortunately, neither one has any significant impact.
The 4%miss is a nice overall damage reduction, but can't be relied on for big hits (think Sartharion breaths), where healers will anticipate on you taking damage anyway.
The reflection is a nice thing, if it wasn't for the fact that most meaningful boss spells can't be reflected or Grounded by Shamans. In fact, the ONLY significant spell so far I've found that can (and should) be reflected is the one from Mimiron's head in Ulduar. But as you will either be tanking something else while a ranged (usually Warlock) tanks the head, or you will tank it yourself with spell reflect & taunt, the improved is not useful there either.
It's a pretty useful talent for PvP, as you have more debuffs such as CC flying around that can miss/be reflected, but in PvE it lacks the power to trump other talents.
Back on the Imp Disciplines & Glyphs discussion;
Bears have a 20% reduction, DKs 30% and Paladins 50%, they all do fine with their CDs, why should you as a Warrior need the 60%
Furthermore, both glyph and talent are an overal increase;
Comparing to an ability on a 1min CD, how much dmg reduction would that ability need to do to average out the same? (Assuming same duration)
Base SW: 60% / 5 min = 12% / min
Glyphed SW: 40% / 3 min = 13.33% / min
Talented SW: 60% / 4 min = 15% / min
Glyph+Talent: 40% / 2 min = 20% / min
In other words, taking Imp Disciplines is a 25% increase after which the Glyph is worth a 33.33% increase in overall efficiency. The glyph alone is an 11.11% effiecency increase. This is ofcourse assuming it's used on the cooldown, the availability of cooldowns on certain fights might affect the effective use here.
Personally, I use Shield Wall proactively for when a large spike will come in (boss ability, healer occupied for whatever reason, picking up an extra mob temporarily, ...) and I use Last Stand as emergency button and extra HP buffer for my healers.
The reasoning behind LS is that it neither prevents, absorbs or restores damage you take. It temporarily adds 30% of your HP bar at the end your healers can use and will have to fill up again before the LS runs out. It does improve all abilities that heal relative to your max HP by 30%, which is why I have it macro'd with Enraged Regen nowadays. It restores 39% of my normal max HP over 10s and gives my healers a buffer of 30%. Together they are a powerful cooldown, but because ER is a 3min CD, I see little use in improving LS to 2min.
Personally I use Glyph of Devastate (>5% TPS increase single target btw), Taunt and either Cleave (heroics) or Shield Wall (raids). I prefer to change target once every 20s and Devastate that one to keep up Sunder than glyphing it, Taunt I use because I kept forgetting to glyph it where needed and Cleave/SW is simply because in heroics I'm better off getting 60% reduction as I won't be needing the faster CD and Cleave helps a lot on secondary threat ofcourse (more than Sunder btw).
Anyway, I think there's plenty of arguments in this thread to base a decision on, go with what helps your raid the best.
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Since the newer content has a lot more spell damage flying around, I found it's much easier to tank with imp. SR right now. Before, I would never put points into it. But because it seems you can reflect even boss damage, it's helpful in more situations right now even in ICC.
That being said, once people are over geared for the content as will undoubtedly happen. I will most likely spec out of ISR and get something else.
I'll echo what Aggathon said above, and suggest that you make peace with your 'hate', carry around different glyphs, and adapt to the situation. Glyphs are cheap and very easy to replace (just takes a couple seconds). I personally carry around 10 different stacks of glyphs. Proper use of glyphs is a powerful tool every tank should have in their arsenal.Alright, that does sound like a good idea. I hate switching glyphs out though, cause it's harder for me to adjust so I think I'll do Last Stand, block, and devastate.
If you're looking for a balanced set of glphs, LS, Blk, and Dev are a fine mix of survivability and threat. However, as you tank harder content you'll want to take advantage of optimal glyphs. For example, on many fights you'll really want the Taunt glyph (like Saurfang and Northrend Beasts). Glyphs can even be 'fun', I love using the Cleave glyph in 5mans (even built a spec around it .
I second with Wartotem on the effectiveness of Improved Spell Reflect in PVP vs. PVE encounters. This ability comes in real handy in PVP (WSG, EotS) when you're carrying a flag or supporting your team's flag carrier.
When it comes to abilities like Shieldwall and Last Stand I find them much more useful when I use them proactively versus reactively in raid encounters. Ever since I glyphed for the reduced cooldown on shieldwall and fully talented for Improved Disciples I've noticed that my survivablity has gone up.
Wartotem's post has a very nice effiecency analysis. I'll try and look at this from a survivabilty perspective. I made my own post for the math behind Last Stand and Shieldwall as my reply did start to become rather lengthy. I'm pretty much reaffirming some of what Wartotem said although I do disagree a bit on his take on the value of improving laststands frequency of use.
So I've been playing around with the recommended talent setup, and using glyphs of Shield Wall, Last Stand, and Block. I do enjoy the less damage I take, and it seems even in heroics I still keep up on AOE threat. The less sunder stacks is annoying, but I think I've adjusted to it nicely.
Along with the glyph comments of me carrying them around, I'm on a server that is full of retards so prices of these glyphs are outrageous. I've only been carrying around glyph of devastate, but I find I really don't need it that much even though it's wonderful on threat.
Also, glyph of taunt? I can see how this needs to be put in on northrend beasts, Saurfang, etc. But I don't see why I'd need it that much. Like I said, really trying to stick to a certain glyph type.
EDIT: Laststand + Enraged Regeneration. Should I swap out glyph of last stand and just stick with using these two together? I've been doing it with the glyph, and seems to work find. What do you guys think?


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