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Taxonomy Questionnaire

Please use this questionnaire to make a determination as to where a game or activity might fit into a category. Traditional card games fall under Flechette Gun along with other card-based games. Checkers, Chess, and abstract games like Battleship could be considered wargames, but their level of abstraction and place in traditional board game popular culture mean they are best classified as Disruptor. If the findings of this procedure seem questionable, email the commander of the King Roger I Military Academy (COMKR1MA) for guidance.

• Does the game require physical movement in a larger area than a single room?
  • YES - This is a live-action game or sport, and is classified under Grenade Launcher
  • NO - Continue below.

• Does the game require primarily electronic equipment such as an arcade cabinet, pinball table, video game console, PC or tablet?
  • YES - If the game is an arcade, pinball, cartridge-era console game, or single-character MMORPG, it falls under Plasma Carbine.
  • YES - If the theme of the game would qualify under the Strategic definition, the game falls under Plasma Rifle.
  • YES - If the game does not qualify under 2.a or 2.b, it falls under Plasma Carbine.
  • NO - Continue below.

• Is the game by title or by Board Game Geek / RPG Geek definition a roleplaying game?
  • YES - The game falls under Grenade Launcher.
  • NO - Continue below.

• Is the game by title or by Board Game Geek / RPG Geek definition a war game?
  • YES - If the game depicts a theater larger than a single battlefield, it is strategic rather than tactical and falls under Tribarrel.
  • YES - If the game is by theme or BGG definition concerned primarily with maritime combat, air combat, aerospace combat, or space combat, it falls under Pistol.
  • YES - If the game is by theme or BGG definition concerned primarily with ground combat, it falls under Rifle.
  • NO - Continue below.

• Is the game by title or identification a collectible card game, deck-building game, or a traditional card game like Poker or Blackjack?
  • YES - The game falls under Flechette Gun.
  • NO - Continue below.

• Is the game by theme or description a traditional family game such as Scrabble, Monopoly, Checkers, Chess or Parcheesi?
  • YES - The game falls under Disruptor.
  • NO - Continue below.

• Is the game a board game with a non-combat theme?
  • YES - If the game’s theme is appropriate to the Strategic definition, it falls under the Tribarrel category.
  • YES - If the game’s theme is appropriate to the Tactical definition, it falls under the Flechette Gun category.
  • NO - Continue below.

• Is the game a children’s game by theme, BGG definition, or suggested age range?
  • YES - The game falls under the Disruptor category.
  • NO - Continue below.

• Does the game by theme, title, or BGG definition classify as a party game?
  • YES - The game falls under Grenade
  • NO - Continue below.

• Is the game a casual-style game that is designed to be played in 30 minutes or less?
  • YES-The game falls under Grenade.

NOTE: If the game is a scifi adaptation of a real-world game, classify it as the real world game would be. Klin Zhai is Klingon chess, so it is classified as chess would be. Pyramid (from Battlestar Galactica) is Colonial poker, so classify it as poker.