Template:Infobox-ability/taxonomy/sandbox

Infobox-ability currently (as of 2019-09-07) provides a complex array of automatic categorization options, based on overlapping taxonomies. These will hopefully be refined through collaborative discussion on the |talk page.

Basic types
Every ability belongs to at least one of these basic types.

[Source types] [Magic types]
 * Feats
 * Enhancements
 * Spells
 * SLAs
 * Ki abilities
 * Channel Divinity abilities
 * [Bard] Songs

An ability can be a simple type, e.g. Spells or Feats, or a composite of a magic type and a source type, e.g., Spell feats.

Source types
The source types are further broken down as follows.
 * Feats
 * Class feats (see definitions in Class feat)
 * &lt;class> class feats
 * &lt;class> bonus feats
 * &lt;class> exclusive feats
 * Racial feats
 * &lt;race> racial feats
 * Feats by source
 * Trainable feats
 * Heroic feats
 * Epic feats
 * Epic Destiny feats
 * Legendary feats
 * Favor reward feats
 * Past life feats
 * Enhancements
 * Class enhancements
 * &lt;class> enhancements
 * Racial enhancements
 * &lt;race> enhancements
 * Epic Destinies
 * &lt;epic destiny> abilities

Usage
Simple types are also broken down by usage.
 * Passive
 * Active (excluding Toggled)
 * Toggled

Effects
Infobox-ability introduces automatic categorization of pages by type of effect. The current (proposed) taxonomy is as follows.

Effects
 * Attacks
 * Damage attacks
 * Death attacks
 * Charm attacks
 * Debuffs
 * Buffs
 * Combat buffs
 * Melee combat buffs
 * Ranged combat buffs
 * Tactical buffs
 * Defense buffs
 * AC buffs
 * Dodge buffs
 * PRR/MRR buffs
 * Resistance buffs (includes DR, spell resistance, elemental resistance)
 * Saving throw buffs
 * Health buffs
 * Healing buffs
 * Restoration buffs
 * Resurrection buffs
 * Misc buffs
 * Ability buffs
 * Movement buffs
 * Proficiency buffs
 * Skill buffs
 * Spellcasting buffs
 * Ki buffs
 * Music buffs
 * Turn Undead buffs
 * Summons

Each (simple type, effect type) pair gets its own category, e.g. Ki attacks, Melee combat feats, Healing spells, PRR/MRR enhancements. The potential category inventory thus numbers well into the hundreds, although hopefully only a fraction of them will actually be needed.

Misc
Several other categories extend these taxonomies further, e.g. Spells with a Somatic component, SLAs with unknown DC.