Shared Perk Points, branch choices, Lodge ballots, pauses, and resets.
Patronage allows a Lodge to choose shared benefits using Perk Points. Its budget combines the current verified Patron reading with the points earned through completed Lodge Challenges in the active School term, to a maximum of ten points. Up to four points may come from the term's published Lodge Challenges.
Perk Points belong to the Lodge. They represent the benefits the Lodge may maintain within its current budget and do not accumulate simply through the passage of time. Each selectable benefit costs one point. They are separate from personal Campus Standing, academic credit, competition merits, and the Patron Favor used within games such as Wizard's Duel.
When Patronage opens, the central Lodge emblem is selected first. Its details offer a quiet hint: As your Lodge develops its Patronage, its identity may find further expression.
Choosing benefits
Each branch begins with an initial benefit and then offers a choice between two further benefits. The initial benefit must be active before either following choice can be unlocked. Selecting one alternative locks the other until the Lodge’s Patronage is reset or a new term begins.
A terminal benefit follows either middle choice in its branch and also requires Patron Tier 5. Challenge Perk Points increase the spending budget but do not replace that Patron requirement.
Branch | Initial benefit | Middle choice | Terminal benefit at Patron Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
Grimoire Perks | Theban Master | Berserker or Wizard's Duel | Multiplayer |
Common room | Prefect's Message | Member Poll or Member Showcase | Lodge Almanac |
Campus | Study Pass Vendor | Reduced Price or More Frequent Purchases | Lodge Livery, coming later |
GSW Mobile | App Livery | Scholarly Distinction or Open Correspondence | Guild Charters |
Grimoire benefits make the selected games available to members of the Lodge through the website Grimoire. Theban Master remains a solo game. Multiplayer enables eligible members to challenge one another in Berserker or Wizard's Duel, according to the game their Lodge has unlocked. These choices do not change access to games in GSW Mobile.
Common room benefits provide one editable Prefect message, followed by either one member poll or one featured member contribution. The Prefect sets the message, manages the poll, or selects the contribution to display.
The Campus branch provides Study Pass Vendor, with a choice of Reduced Price or More Frequent Purchases. Purchases take place through the Lodge vendor on vGSW when active, with linked Campus Standing Tier 3 or above. Follow the vendor's current prices and purchase intervals. Lodge Livery is marked coming later and cannot presently be selected.
The Lodge Almanac provides a Sun and Moon calendar and planetary hours for a selected date and location.
The GSW Mobile branch supports App Livery, a choice of weekly study or correspondence benefits, and Guild Charters. See Lodge Benefits in GSW Mobile and Guilds and Guild Towers for their conditions.
Website Grimoire multiplayer
Multiplayer is the final Grimoire Perks choice. It costs one Perk Point, requires Patron Tier 5, and follows either Berserker or Wizard's Duel. Its icon shows two facing Wizards. Both players' Lodges must have the chosen game and Multiplayer active, whether the players belong to the same Lodge or to different Lodges. Multiplayer does not unlock the other middle alternative.
In the website Grimoire's Games area, choose Challenge a Wizard, select the game, and switch on Available for invitations. Keep the Grimoire open while you want to be found. Choose My Lodge or Other Lodges, then use Find a wizard by name to look through available, eligible pupils. For Wizard's Duel, choose your mentor before sending or accepting an invitation. Switching availability off removes you from new challenge searches.
An invitation displays a two-minute countdown. The recipient may Accept or Decline, and the sender may choose Cancel invitation. An unanswered invitation expires without awarding a win or loss. Reloading does not restart the deadline. If it expires, arrange a fresh invitation when you are both available.
Accepted matches are saved automatically. After a reload or brief interruption, reopen Challenge a Wizard and choose Resume match under Saved matches. If an action reports an interrupted connection, use Retry saved action to check that same move or invitation. Choosing Resign match ends the match and awards the win to your opponent.
When a disconnect is confirmed, the match displays a five-minute Time to reconnect countdown. Return promptly to continue. After that allowance, an opponent who remained connected may use Claim victory by forfeit when the control becomes available. A shared interruption or both players being away does not automatically award a win.
A match you have already accepted can still be resumed and finished if the required perks later pause. Starting or accepting a new challenge requires both Lodges to meet the current requirements.
These instructions apply to matches between players using the School website. Website and GSW Mobile opponents and matches remain separate, with no cross-platform play. The app keeps its existing game access, invitation timing, and connection rules.
Prefect decisions and Lodge ballots
The assigned Prefect may choose benefits directly or open a Lodge ballot. A direct selection presents a confirmation before a Perk Point is spent.
When the Prefect opens a ballot, at least two eligible benefits must be offered. The ballot lasts 48 hours, reserves one Perk Point, and pauses other allocations while that decision is underway.
Where no Prefect is assigned, the system opens a ballot when the Lodge has unspent Perk Points and eligible choices. This occurs when the School next updates the Lodge’s Patronage record. Patronage ballots do not require the separate Member Poll benefit.
Members of the Lodge may vote when their School account is linked to vGSW and their Campus Standing record has been verified. Each eligible member has one vote and may change it before the displayed closing time. The managing Prefect does not vote in a Patronage ballot.
The ballot displays its vote totals. At the deadline, the leading choice is selected, subject to the required Perk Points and prerequisite still being available. A tie opens a 24-hour runoff among the tied choices. A further tie opens another runoff. If nobody votes, the Perk Point remains unspent. After an automatic ballot closes without votes, an eligible Lodge member may start a new ballot.
The displayed deadline determines when voting closes. The result may take a little longer to appear while the School completes its next update.
Changes in budget or Patron tier
A reduced budget or Patron tier may pause saved selections. Choices are evaluated in allocation order and selections that can no longer operate are retained. As sufficient points and Patron eligibility return, eligible benefits return in their original order. A terminal benefit can remain paused below Patron Tier 5 even when the Lodge has sufficient Challenge Perk Points.
A temporary reduction in Patron tier therefore does not provide an opportunity to choose different benefits.
Resetting Patronage
Only the assigned Prefect may reset the Lodge’s Patronage during a term. The reset requires confirmation, adds 50 demerits to the Lodge’s competition record, and clears the whole allocation so that the available Perk Points can be reassigned. Individual choices cannot be exchanged separately.
A Lodge without a Prefect cannot reset its Patronage by vote. Its selected benefits remain in place, subject to Patron tier changes and the start of a new term.
The Faculty term-reset process starts a fresh set of Patronage choices and clears the previous term’s allocation ballots and confirmations. Saved Common room messages, member polls, and featured contributions are retained, although their features remain hidden while the corresponding benefits are inactive.
Connected systems may take a few minutes to reflect a reset or changed benefit. The Lumos Award’s provision for restoring an individual Champion Boon does not waive the 50-demerit Patronage reset cost.
The previous term's Challenge Perk Points do not carry into the new term. See Lodge Challenges for earning the shared term points and Lodge Commons for the Lodge's current features.