D&D 5E Bag of Holding Question

[MarkB]

@Voadam I'm not sure if this item still exists in 5e but earlier editions also had Heward's Handy Haversack, which was in essence a Backpack of Holding; smaller, lighter, and with less payload than a true Bag of Holding but using the same general principle of being bigger on the inside.

The Handy Haversack still exists in 5e, and is broadly similar to its earlier-edition equivalents. Weirdly, it has a higher rarity than the Bag of Holding despite its lower capacity.

 

[Voadam]

So where do you stand on the original question?

I am currently running 5e but do not have a bag of holding in the party.

I would generally not sweat it until the party tried to shove a ton of big things in. I have never been a fan of encumbrance, even in B/X days with things listed out in coin equivalent encumbrance for each piece of equipment in the basic set.

I vaguely remember an OSR system, maybe Black Hack, has items measured in encumbrance slots and that could be adjusted for your simplification but with system desire here.

I also generally do not sweat things like mundane ammo so options like ammo dice (a similar system) are not something I have picked up.

 

[MarkB]

I am currently running 5e but do not have a bag of holding in the party.

I would generally not sweat it until the party tried to shove a ton of big things in. I have never been a fan of encumbrance, even in B/X days with things listed out in coin equivalent encumbrance for each piece of equipment in the basic set.

I vaguely remember an OSR system, maybe Black Hack, has items measured in encumbrance slots and that could be adjusted for your simplification but with system desire here.

I also generally do not sweat things like mundane ammo so options like ammo dice (a similar system) are not something I have picked up.

Yeah, in practice I've always treated it as just the "Bag of not worrying about encumbrance anymore".

(Aside from that one time the party went into the Mournland and stuffed a bunch of corrupted dragonshards into it for a week. Then it became a Living Bag of Holding, which was fun when they tried retrieving the dragonshards in the middle of an arcane laboratory in Arcanix.)

 

[Lanefan]

Yeah, in practice I've always treated it as just the "Bag of not worrying about encumbrance anymore".

Pretty much same here, though (somewhat by random chance) they're as rare as hen's teeth in my game.

 

[R_J_K75]

I am currently running 5e but do not have a bag of holding in the party.

I would generally not sweat it until the party tried to shove a ton of big things in. I have never been a fan of encumbrance, even in B/X days with things listed out in coin equivalent encumbrance for each piece of equipment in the basic set.

I vaguely remember an OSR system, maybe Black Hack, has items measured in encumbrance slots and that could be adjusted for your simplification but with system desire here.

I also generally do not sweat things like mundane ammo so options like ammo dice (a similar system) are not something I have picked up.

Im the same, I dont worry about torches. rations, the mundane things. The encumbrance while in theory is good but bad in practice,

Black Hack box, are you talking abut the late 2E starter set?

 

[R_J_K75]

Aside from that one time

Pretty sure I had a party put a BoH into a portable hole or Leomunds Chest. INCOMMING!

 

[Umbran]

It doesn't say it's a cylinder. It says its depth is four feet, and it's two feet wide at the mouth. Once you get past the mouth, the rest of it can be wide enough to accommodate its full 64-cubic-feet capacity.

I know. I was demonstrating that fact, backing it up with numbers. The cylinder thing is just a ballpark estimate of the volume of the exterior bag, to show clearly it was too small.

 

[R_J_K75]

I'm never amazed at what players put into a BoH. I had a player put a rended bears skinny in one next to (lets assume) the potion they wanted to drink. I think that called make DC (?) con check v Filth Fever.

 

[Bill Zebub]

A lot of you put WAY more thought into this than I do. I pretty much let them use it as an infinite bag of holding, unless they try to put something really big in. If it's too big by itself I say no, and if it's kinda almost too big I ask what's already in it, and if the answer is "a lot" I say no. But other than that, keeping track of the total volume/weight doesn't seem to add any fun to the game.

 

[Voadam]

Black Hack box, are you talking abut the late 2E starter set?

I just pulled out my 2e Black Hack and it has a usage die mechanic but not the encumbrance slots I was thinking of that I saw.

There are a lot of OSR systems, not sure where to direct you there for the one I was thinking of.