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I remember reading the story about Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. There are a lot of versions of the story, and in this story, there were two genies. One, the more powerful, was the Genie of the Lamp. The other, the less powerful, was the Genie of the Ring, which was in a ring that Aladdin wore on his finger.
I want to know how I would make a ring like this, and it would either be a ring to summon a Djinn, or it would be a Ring of Limited Wish, with unlimited charges.
What's the cost, and what would be required to make one?
just replace 3 limited wishes with 1 wish per month. If your campaign doesn't take place of years, it should be worth about the same.
If you want unlimited wishes at any time, then you should look into major artifacts and forget about pricing it. It will break your game.
You might want to make it half cursed, so that all wishes are misinterpreted in the most malicious way, but that will lead to paranoid people and them drafting up a wish that takes about 10 pages of *if*s.
You don't have to use wish specifically. Just make it call a genie of some kind (use stats for maybe an air genasi with a fly speed) that's a sorcerer with a few useful low - to midlevel spells that can accomplish most things. Spell levels 5 and below actually provide the ability to do most things of mythology. Fly, minor creation, summon monster, prestidigitation, levitation, major image and so on.
Wish is overrated. You summon the genie and wish it to do stuff, and it does stuff - but not with the wish spell.
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Or start with this ring, double the price, and make it call a Vizier.
It might be a game-breaking item though, so I'd stick with the 3 limited wishes instead of unlimited.
Your solution is my personal favourite. It was going to be a villain who had it anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about it falling into PC hands. If they're clever enough to get it however, I think having certain wishes granted would be fine.