Infinite Wish Loop

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It kind of goes like this. Bonus round: Can you discover the highly exploitable flaw in this man's wishes splorks?

"I will grant you three wishes, but no wishing for more wishes."
"Gosh, I wish I could wish for more wishes."
"... fuck."

Role-playing games with powerful wizards usually have a spell called "Wish" or similar at the top tier of spellcasting, and it's supposed to be the wildcard of do-as-thou-wilt magical effect. But any DM knows the problem with giving players a blank check: they're going to actually try to cash it in. If the game wasn't written by a noob, the spell description for the Wish spell will have specific limits on what can be wished for, including "No wishing for more wishes!" and "No wishing for more beings who grant you wishes" in order to prevent cheesing via infinite wish loops.

...Ha ha, screw that. The Wish spell is supposed to be an "I win" button, and we're going to win the fuck out of this game. This page should be a list of how to get nigh-limitless uses of the Wish-type spell effect in games.

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.