A World of Warcraft Classic (Season of Discovery) addon that lets a guild coordinate and lock its members to a chosen SoD phase, so everyone progresses through the seasonal content together instead of out-running it.

• Relaxed — locks players to the phase's level cap only. All other content stays reachable.
• Authentic — additionally restricts phase-gated instances, gear/items, profession skill caps, quests, and SoD runes to what was available at that phase.

• /sodlock — open options
• /sodlock status — print the active ruleset and whether you're an officer
• /sodlock roster — open the guild compliance window
• /sodlock scan — re-check your current state now
• Minimap button: left-click = roster, right-click = options

Settings live on a Guild Settings tab and sync to the whole guild:

• Officers set the active phase and lock mode. "Officer" = a guild rank index at or below the configurable Officer rank threshold (0 = Guild Master).
• The guild leader sets the enforcement config — which rules are enforced (level / instance / gear / profession / quest / rune), whether illegal gear is auto-unequipped, and the instance grace period. Every member follows this config automatically.

Incoming ruleset broadcasts are validated against the original setter's guild rank, so a non-officer cannot relay a forged ruleset. Only personal preferences (local kill switch, warning sound, minimap button) stay per-player. Players not in a guild control their own local config (no broadcast).

• Communication is over the guild addon channel (prefix SoDPL), payloads serialized with LibSerialize and compressed with LibDeflate.
• An officer changing the phase/mode — or the guild leader changing the enforcement config — bumps a monotonic epoch and broadcasts the whole ruleset. Members apply the highest epoch they've seen and cache it.
• On login a client asks the guild for the current ruleset; any client answers with its cached copy (authority still comes from the original setter's rank).
• Every 60s each member broadcasts a status report (level, phase, mode, violation flags); the Compliance module aggregates these into the roster.

The per-phase ruleset lives in Data/Phases.lua. The high-confidence fields (level caps, the headline raid, profession caps, the instance progression) are filled in. The large community-maintained tables ship with a working schema and are meant to be expanded:

• bannedItems[itemID] = true — items whose source unlocks in a later phase (e.g. raid/dungeon loot from content that isn't out yet). Authentic gear gating already auto-flags any item whose required level exceeds the phase cap; bannedItems is for the harder cases (a low-level item from a future-phase source). Populate from Wowhead / AtlasLoot exports.
• bannedQuests[questID] = true — quests that belong to later-phase content.
• runes[spellID] = true — runes engravable at that phase. Rune enforcement is off for any phase whose runes table is empty.

Baganator and other bag replacements hide the default Blizzard bags, so the built-in "X" overlay can't draw on them. When Baganator is installed, the addon registers a corner-widget plugin ("SoD Phase Lock: blocked") that marks flagged items inside Baganator's views; it auto-enables in the top-left corner and can be moved/removed in Baganator → Icon Settings → Icon Corners.

instanceUnlocks is additive per phase; the cumulative enterable set is built automatically at load.

Copy the SoDPhaseLock folder into World of Warcraft/_classic_era_/Interface/AddOns/ and restart / /reload.

Ace3 (AceAddon, AceEvent, AceConsole, AceComm, AceTimer, AceDB, AceConfig, AceGUI, AceDBOptions, CallbackHandler, LibStub), LibSerialize, LibDeflate, LibDBIcon-1.0 + LibDataBroker-1.1.