D&D 5E (2024) Getting ready to use the Portable Hole + Bag of holding trick

Xenolith234 · Wednesday at 9:06 PM

ECMO3 said:
I ended up not using it and we won the fight, although I went down, the Cleric went down again (after I healed him) and the Barbarian went down 2 more times.

In the loot we found another portable hole ... and two more bags of holding.

Hole-y mackerel.

TheSword · 2026-04-16T07:28:36+0100

ECMO3 said:
I ended up not using it and we won the fight, although I went down, the Cleric went down again (after I healed him) and the Barbarian went down 2 more times.

In the loot we found another portable hole ... and two more bags of holding.

Do you think the universe is trying to tell you something?

Or maybe the DM reads EN World!

Chaltab · 2026-04-16T20:42:00+0100

Clint_L said:
How does your character know about the portable hole trick?

It's part of the item description so it's presumably something you learn by spending an hour with it or casting Identify.

I like to imagine that bags of holding and portable holes are legally required to come with a warning label to this effect. I mean we put warning labels on cigarettes, drugs, ma tresses... surely some wizard guild would have thought of raising public awareness.

MarkB · 2026-04-17T10:09:28+0100

Chaltab said:
It's part of the item description so it's presumably something you learn by spending an hour with it or casting Identify.

I like to imagine that bags of holding and portable holes are legally required to come with a warning label to this effect. I mean we put warning labels on cigarettes, drugs, ma tresses... surely some wizard guild would have thought of raising public awareness.

More to the point, if you rule that the characters don't know this info and give them both items, how do they go for weeks afterwards without ever just happening to put one inside the other? The portable hole is effectively a small room that you can step into, and would need to step into to reach items at the back, does the guy with the bag just never happen to do that?