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]

• Feats
• Enhancements

[Magic types]

• 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)
    • <class> class feats
    • <class> bonus feats
    • <class> exclusive feats
  • Racial feats
    • <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
    • <class> enhancements
  • Racial enhancements
    • <race> enhancements
  • Epic Destinies
    • <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.

See also

T:Infobox-ability/issues/sandbox