Follow-ups from live testing: - Game-account creation is now an admin Settings control (disabled / website / hybrid / game) instead of a hidden on/off flag. The site offers creation for website+hybrid; help text notes the shard's SignupMode (Bridge.cfg) has the final say. game_account_signup setting widened to a 4-value enum + validated on save. - Invites: the accept link is ALWAYS returned and shown with a Copy button, and a "Email the invitation" toggle lets an admin create a link-only invite (no email) or email it. Backend takes sendEmail (default true) and always returns acceptUrl. - Staff can create a game account from their own /admin/characters page too (POST /admin/shard/account → the shared createGameAccount controller), so the form is reachable in both the player and admin portals. Note: the admin Houses view (/admin/houses) already worked; the earlier failure was a stale Vite HMR state for the new route (needs a hard refresh). Client build clean; server routes load; swagger regenerated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>