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Infinite Wish Loop - 1d4chan
Infinite Wish Loop - 1d4chan
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Contents
▪ 1 Candle of Invocation Loop
▪ 2 Wand Surge
▪ 3 Chain of Simulacra
▪ 4 Music Beyond The Spheres
Gate in an efreet (10 hitdice). Among its spell-like abilities is "1/day grant up to three wishes (to non-genies
only)". Wish one: Ale. Wish two: Whores. Wish three: another Candle of Invocation, pretty please. Cheese
aficionados should recognize this method as a crucial step of the early versions of the Path to Pun-Pun. Newer
versions bypass this by exploiting that Pazuzu grants Paladins one free, uncorrupted wish to tempt them.
Wand Surge
This one's for D&D's Eberron setting. Your character should have the 'Wand Surge' feat, and you've hopefully
acquired a Wand of Unfettered Heroism with at least one charge left (or can just cast it yourself, but that takes
too long). If you have, then get yourself a Staff of Wishes with at least one charge left.
Zap yourself with the wand, which gives you a free action point every round for one minute. Use that action
point every round with the Wand Surge feat to use a magic item without expending a charge. One minute = 10
rounds, so that's ten uses of the Staff of Wishes without expending the last charge.
Chain of Simulacra
The exploit of choice in 5th edition D&D involves the Simulacrum spell, which allows you to create a clone of
yourself (or any other character) that has the original's spells and spell slots. Including Wish. This lets players
get around that pesky "Casting Wish means you have a 1/3 chance of never being able to use it again"
restriction, because it isn't the player who is casting the spell. This is also used to create an ever-expanding army
of 17th level spellcasters, as the Simulacrum can cast its one use of Wish (simulacrum spell slots don't
regenerate) to make another Simulacrum, and that one spends its slot to make another, until... until nothing,
because this train will not stop, and has no reason to stop. You won D&D, good job. I hope you're happy.
3E has a variant based on duplicating a monster with a Wish SLA, and using the wish to duplicate simulacrum.
Mirror Mephit, a stupidly easy to summon monster with a Simulacrum SLA, is a popular starting point.
This can also be used to implement the Peasant Railgun, if you really wanted to.
9 Limited Wishes can generate 27000GP of stuff (Duplicate Fabricate with 1000GP free material components
for 3000GP) and then a 10th can fuse it into a single technological item. This can then be sacrificed to cast a
real wish with Music Beyond the Spheres.