D&D 5E What happens if you take a bag of holding into rope trick's extra dimensional space?

[silentbob1]

What happens if you take a bag of holding into rope trick's extra dimensional space?

The bag of holding description says:

Placing a bag of holding inside an extradimensional space created by a Heward's handy haversack, portable hole, or similar item instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The gate originates where the one item was placed inside the other. Any creature within 10 feet of the gate is sucked through it to a random location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way only and can't be reopened.

 

[Ancalagon]

Something pretty dire I would expect...

 

[Lanefan]

The bag's carrier, along with whoever else is in that rope trick at the time, is off on a 1-way* trip to the Astral. Whoever's left outside the rope trick will need to go back to town and do some recruitin'.

* - unless they're high enough level to actually be able to function in the Astral, in which case you've got an unexpected adventure on your hands...

Lanefan

 

[Eubani]

A literal reading says item not spell. This can be passed off as a small temporary space is no issue where a permanent space causes "interference". This interpretation is a tad on the kind side but is also the simplest way to go.

 

[Plaguescarred]

What happens if you take a bag of holding into rope trick's extra dimensional space?

SUCK & DESTROY as per Metallica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mdBw3SG5io

 

[Delazar]

Nothing happens.

It clearly mentions that for disaster to occur you need to place the bag into an extradimensional space created by an ITEM.

Rope Trick is not an item. Magnificent Mansion is also not an item.

 

[Shiroiken]

I had not noticed the change from previous editions to specify items. This is actually a good thing, as my group avoided Magnificent Mansion because of their portable hole. Considering they knew they were going into the underdark, the MM would have helped avoid a lot of wandering monster checks, and I like rewarding smart play. I'll have to let them know and give them the option of switching back to it.

 

[MoonSong]

As far as I remember it was at least a suggestion since at least 3.5 that no, a hand haversack or bag of holding does nothing when entering a rope trick or other bigger space.

 

[CapnZapp]

What happens if you take a bag of holding into rope trick's extra dimensional space?

Nothing.

Otherwise you would have had to leave your bag outside the safety of the rope trick, and "inconvenience" is not the name of the game in 5th edition.

 

[Willie the Duck]

Inconvenience, plus: wanting to tamp down/limit items which enable PCs to carry more encumbrance than they otherwise reasonably could is a game design goal which was important in 1e/BECMI and earlier, and has just been an amusing curiosity in every edition since (it was highly important when the name of the game was dragging as much Gp=Xp of the dungeon as you can, now it is just a convenience issue).