Folding Box?

[Space monkey]

I belive there was something like that in Diablo 2

It took up less space in your invintory then it contained within.

 

[Ringmereth]

On a note unrelated to what you're thinking of, a campaign I played in last year featured a chunk of solid adamantium that was essentially a folding box, opened by tugging the astral string on the back. Only problem was that it contained a glabrezu that snipped my wizard in half at the waist (thanks to the party Staff of Life that was later aquired, though, I returned to the land of the living in time to kill the thing's leader).

Anyway, there's no reason you can't take a normal Bag of Holding and put it in box shape. Different look, but same mechanics.

 

[Doctor Bomb]

I think I remember where I saw that. One of the Forgotten Realm's guides, a little tan book, looked like the Volo's guides, but had a feminine name, started with an A...

Stupid swiss-cheese memory...

MMM.... cheese....

 

[Jhulae]

I think I remember where I saw that. One of the Forgotten Realm's guides, a little tan book, looked like the Volo's guides, but had a feminine name, started with an A...

Stupid swiss-cheese memory...

MMM.... cheese....

Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

I belive there was something like that in Diablo 2

It took up less space in your invintory then it contained within.

That's the Horadric Cube. In addition to being used to assemble widgets for the game it was used to combine items into other things. As a side effect it had more storage "inside" the cube than it took up in your inventory space. I don't think they necessarily intended that it be used for additional storage, it just worked out that way.

Now, there was an item in the original Temple of Elemental Evil (room #311) that was like combination of a box of holding and Leomunds Secure Chest that shrank/expanded in size. It always weighed 30# no matter what was in it unless expanded to its largest size. It's standard size was 2'x2'x3', it shrank to 2"x2"x3", acted as a Leomunds Secure Chest on command, or expanded to 8'x8'x12' with sides 1' thick and weighing 1200#. That may well have been the single most useful item I ever gave players in a D&D campaign. Do you realize how much bulk and dead weight you can fit into an 8'x8'x12' box that shrinks to a couple of inches weighing only 30#? It's a bag of holding on steroids.

They would go through dungeons and simply throw EVERYTHING into it. Weapons, armor, whole chests, large statues, tapestries... They'd wait until they'd left the dungeon entirely cleaned out and then go through the... box... and sort through it. They had enough weapons and armor to outfit several armies simply because they couldn't possibly sell it all.

 

[spunky_mutters]

There is indeed a flat box in the 2e Tome of Magic. It's 3'x2'x2" , but the 2" is 6' inside. It's permanently dark inside, and you can't see inside even with magical light. It always weighs 8 lbs. My players found one with a minor artifact stuck to the bottom with sovereign glue, and they've been carrying it around for a year and a half without trying to get it out. Right now they've got a dead cohort stuffed into it for later disposal.

 

[spunky_mutters]

...and it explodes if you teleport it (or ddor, or put it in an extra-dimensional space).

 

[mzsylver]

There is indeed a flat box in the 2e Tome of Magic. It's 3'x2'x2" , but the 2" is 6' inside. It's permanently dark inside, and you can't see inside even with magical light. It always weighs 8 lbs. My players found one with a minor artifact stuck to the bottom with sovereign glue, and they've been carrying it around for a year and a half without trying to get it out. Right now they've got a dead cohort stuffed into it for later disposal.

That is HILARIOUS! I wish I still ran a home campaign. I would totally steal that idea!