The weight of wealth

[Jack Haggerty]

Yes. The common, ignorant townsman isn't going to differentiate a bag of holding from his wife's linen sack, but adventurers would recognize it on the spot. Or rather, they would almost always assume that it was the mystical bag and nothing less. A cloth sack on the backs of well-armored folk would draw thieves to it like flies to honey.

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Which is why you sling it over the back of your donkey or henchman with all the other common cloth sacks.

 

[KarinsDad]

Which is why you sling it over the back of your donkey or henchman with all the other common cloth sacks.

Precisely. Thanks for illustrating my point.

As a thief, which bag are you going to go after:

1) The leather backpacks of any of 4 party members, or the big cloth sack of the 5th party member (henchman)?

2) The cloth sacks on the donkey, or the leather backpacks on the humanoids (i.e. party members)?

And in combat, it should be worse.

No matter how you slice it, bags of holding should be big targets for a lot of intelligent opponents because they are big and look like they are easier to cut into.

 

[Crothian]

To go pack the original topic of coins and the wieght, the current group I'm in buys towns out of gems to make the money portible. In my own campaign setting, I use coins that are of more value then the material they are made from (coins worth 5, 10, or 50gp).