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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wyvernhand" data-source="post: 5866644" data-attributes="member: 97681">On top of being mechanically crappy, VoP is exceedingly easy to fall.  Can you carry a mountain of gold to an orphanage to donate it to the starving children's retirement fund?  Yes.  Could you carry the money there in a Bag of Holding?  Nope.  Heck, just being in possession of a Bag of Holding that has anything in it (dust, water, AIR) is considered "utilizing" the item with a one way ticket to Fallsville.  The same could be said of being the recipient of someone's buffing wand, or riding along on someone's magic carpet.  You aren't directly in control, but you are still receiving direct benefits from an item as if you were in possession of it.And no, you couldn't actually accept someone else's booze.  There is an example in VoP that explicitly states that you can not "borrow" someone else's swag, benefit from it, and then give it back (or not, in the case of potions or booze).  It doesn't matter who's it is, you can't benefit from it or by the RAW, you fall.  Its a very slippery slope once you start trying to quantify what is and isn't benefiting from something.</blockquote>