Stomach of Holding - Please Critique

[Angel Tarragon]

Stomach of Holding
Transmutation
Level: Clr 3, Sor/Wiz 3
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Target: Creature Touched
Duration: 6 days
Saving Throw: Fort negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

The target can hide inorganic items in their stomach, as if it were a Bag of Holding Type I. The target can retrieve items by regurgitating them. If by the time the spell expires, all items have not been retrieved, the target takes 5D6 points of internal injury as the items force their way up and out all at once.

Anything organic the beneficiary tries to store takes acidic damage (1D6/round) as the stomach tries to digest it. Creatures can hack at the stomach lining to try to escape, needing to inflict three points of damage to do so. Immediately after, the beneficiary must make a DC 25 Fort save or take one point of temporary Constitution damage. Another one point of damage is necessary to break through the skin for the creature to escape.

Material Component: An empty sack

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Thoughts?

 

[Jack Simth]

Compare to Secret Chest. Secret Chest holds 1 cubic foot per caster level (but no weight limit), and lasts 60 days (can go more, but you risk losing the stuff inside), has a very expensive focus (part of which is required to retrieve your stuff - you can't get it back after a strip-search), and is a 5th level spell; this one holds 30 cubic feet (flat amount) with a 250 pound limit (again, flat amount) for a flat six days (and if you exceed that timeframe, you're merely injured - out of combat, even, where it hardly matters). This is in most ways superior to Secret Chest (but then, a normal type 1 bag of holding is, too) and is a lower-level spell.

 

[WhatGravitas]

...(and if you exceed that timeframe, you're merely injured - out of combat, even, where it hardly matters).

Disagree. Bigger combats see dispel magics quite often - and that will hurt!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Maldor]

i would say this is more then fair when compared to hoard gullet page 68 dragon magic

 

[Claudius Gaius]

Quite Reasonable

Seems quite reasonable, and possibly even underpowered: the basic Bag of Holding effect must be pretty low level or it would be much more expensive to make Bags of Holding. The Secret Chest comparison is unwarranted, Secret Chest makes no mention of any risk (even by extraplanar hunting expeditions) until after 60 days - hence you can use it to put the most hideous evil artifacts, the vital foci for the once-in-an-eon ritual, and similar items into perfect isolation and concealment for at least 60 days - longer if you renew the spell. That's a lot more important than using it to store your luggage. If you want a discussion of Extradimensional Storage spells, the Shareware version of The Practical Enchanter (linked in the signature) covers them fairly well.

 

[erf_beto]

Why isn't this a Druid spell?
Wildshaped druids making clever use of disarm and this spell would be cool.
Though there's nothing saying you're supposed to be swallowing stuff, I guess that's how they... get in, right?

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Though there's nothing saying you're supposed to be swallowing stuff, I guess that's how they... get in, right?

Unless your group is weird probably

Hey even if not its still better than the Bouncing Baby Vorpal Sword thread