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Prior to 2008, every guild would write its own specials and
spells. Different guilds did things differently, in many places
there were missing checks (is this a no-combat room?), and there
were a lot of unhappiness that guild X had bugs that let it do
things differently than others. An effort to build a common
library for all guilds to use was begun.
The road to converting all of the guilds has been a long one. It
has taken many wizards a significant amount of time and effort
to migrate their guilds over to the shared libraries. But as
each one was complete, it was easier to make fixes and treat
comparable effects as working in the same way.
I am pleased to announce, with the ranger recode, that the
last of the guilds has been transitioned over. Everyone is
playing by the same core rules when it comes to spells and
abilities now.
There is still more work for us to do - some smaller tweaks
still need to be made to some effects, but the heavy lifting
is now done. More improvements are still coming for
the rangers as well.
I'd like to call out all the work done by the many wizards
over the last _14_ years to making this happen.