D&D 5E Bag of Holding Question

[Vaalingrade]

I bother with it because handwaving inventories and encumbrance removes fun from the game, by breaking my immersion. Letting the characters just assume to always be carrying everything they ever found, whenever it's convenient, just feels like sloppy storytelling to me.

Storytelling also requires economy. Bad writers are the ones that list everything in a character's purse or describe every piece of furniture in the room in painstaking detail.

I'd rather eliminate a boring part of the game that serves no actual purpose than be super-tight with simulationism.

 

[R_J_K75]

I'd rather eliminate a boring part of the game that serves no actual purpose than be super-tight with simulationism.

I think you missed the point of the tread.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I think you missed the point of the tread.

Or I might have been replying to discussion happening in the thread. But sure, whatever.

 

[aco175]

I recently read one of the more recent Drizzt books and Regis has a BOH. He has a portable alchemy lab and weeks of food among the other normal equipment he would carry. His may carry what is needed by plot and story, but he did run out of supplies after a few to several weeks lost in the underdark.

 

[Lanefan]

While it's well known you can't put one extra-dimensional container into another - e..g. no putting one Bag of Holding into another Bag of Holding, or a Bag of Holding into a Portable Hole - because extra-dimensional spaces don't play well together, those aren't the only commonly-seen extradimensional spaces in the game.

Everyone always forgets about Rope Trick....

 

[Vaalingrade]

So there was a variant I had in one game where they took out a military field commander and got a folding command.

Essentially, this is a command tent that when folded keeps its contents in place in folded space. It's a 10x15 room that you physically have to arrange things in that takes 20 minutes to set down or take up. Living things can't stay in the tent because the tent is physically folding its contents via impossible physics. Organisms hate that.

 

[CleverNickName]

Everyone always forgets about Rope Trick....

...and then immediately blames the DM for their faulty memories.

Silly players.

 

[dave2008]

You can get by a lot without sweating it. Just tell them to keep in mind the space is a cylinder two feet diameter by four feet deep so no polearms and not multiple suits of plate armor. If they just want it for coins I expect that can be calculated out for how many go into 500 pounds.

That is not quite how it works. That outside dimensions are a 2' diameter cylinder 4' long, which = 12.56 cu. ft.; however, the bag has 64 cu. ft. of interior space. So I think it would not be unreasonable to think you could get a polearm in there.

 

[MarkB]

That is not quite how it works. That outside dimensions are a 2' diameter cylinder 4' long, which = 12.56 cu. ft.; however, the bag has 64 cu. ft. of interior space. So I think it would not be unreasonable to think you could get a polearm in there.

It's the interior that is 4 feet deep, with an opening of 2 feet. A 4 x 4 x 4 foot interior space gives a capacity of 64 cubic feet.

 

[dave2008]

It's the interior that is 4 feet deep, with an opening of 2 feet. A 4 x 4 x 4 foot interior space gives a capacity of 64 cubic feet.

Does it actually say that*? Could it also be 2x4x8 or 2x3x10.66 or whatever you need that interior space to be? It is magic. I always assumed it conformed to whatever it need to be.

* It does not. The description describes the exterior only:

"...its outside dimensions, roughly 2 feet in diameter at the mouth and 4 feet deep."