Editing Infinite Wish Loop (section)

== Candle of Invocation Loop ==
The D&D 3e version of "Wishing for more Genies" is the Candle of Invocation Loop. Step 1) Get a Candle of Invocation (8,400gp, could show up in the treasure for encounter level 12). If the Candle matches your alignment, you can use its ''gate'' feature. The Candle has caster level (CL) 17, so you can use the Candle to gate in 34 hitdice of creatures, and have them serve you immediately for 17 rounds without needing payment. This will destroy the candle, but no worries.

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 of matching alignment, pretty please (or just 3 Candles of Invocation). [[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 [[Paladin]]s one free, uncorrupted wish to tempt them. In fact, since the Candle can gate in 34 hitdice of creatures, you can gate in 3 Efreets (30 hitdice total), for total of 9 wishes (since you don't need a ''particular'' individual Efreet; and using [https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Improving_Creatures bigger Efreet] doesn't increase his wishes amount). Since Efreet casts as spell-like ability, all material and XP costs are null.

[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/GameBreaker/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition You could also kick-start this loop if you cast Gate directly]. [https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Gate It is a level 9 spell of Cleric, Sorcerer, Wizard, and "Glory Domain" user, and costs 1000 XP]; so, it would require a relatively high-level PC to work that way (you need 17 Cleric/Wizard or 18 Sorcerer level to cast Gate directly). Candle Of Invocation, however, can be used by anyone and can be bought '''as early as 5th level''' if you have proper wealth-by level (possibly even earlier if we pool all PCs' funds).

You could also summon gods, deities, and similar powerful entities with Gate. While they can't be controlled, and get summoned only if they want to (ask them ''before'' casting Gate — or better yet, ask all gods to notify you when they want to be summoned) — they're incredibly powerful, and Good god would still do good things even when he's uncontrolled. Sometimes, their time may be limited due to them having some kind of mind-bogglingly important things to do at their plane of existence — but, a god can do more in a round than a PC could do in a year (and they should at least have the "time available without need of payment" amount of rounds available for local affairs).