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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9547924" data-attributes="member: 6796468">My answer:Passing between the planar barrier into these incredibly simplistic pocket dimensions causes &quot;Essential Loss&quot;. While a stick is still a stick when pulled out of a bag of holding, or a sword is still a sword, an ineffable essence of the item is gone. Perhaps it's the familial connection to a weapon passed down by generations severed by casting it into a bag of holding in favor of a new magic sword. Certainly, the family would still recognize that blade, but the feeling of connection, of legacy, is diminished.For bodies its their connection to the soul. For food it's the ability to nourish. Magic items, such as weapons or armor, and living creatures small enough to fit? They're protected from this essential loss by the energy that is imbued into or moving through them. If you put the family dog into a bag of holding and pulled him back out (before suffocation) the dog will be unchanged. Well. He might have developed a fear of silent, confined, dark spaces... But the essence of what makes him that family's dog? Unchanged.Is it possible, once you understand the essential loss, to create a bag of holding that -doesn't- employ that specific simplistic pocket dimension and thus the essential loss? Possibly! But all the ones that exist were created before you spent 4 levels making your extra special improved bag of holding, so they still suck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 9547924, member: 6796468"] My answer: Passing between the planar barrier into these incredibly simplistic pocket dimensions causes "Essential Loss". While a stick is still a stick when pulled out of a bag of holding, or a sword is still a sword, an ineffable essence of the item is gone. Perhaps it's the familial connection to a weapon passed down by generations severed by casting it into a bag of holding in favor of a new magic sword. Certainly, the family would still recognize that blade, but the feeling of connection, of legacy, is diminished. For bodies its their connection to the soul. For food it's the ability to nourish. Magic items, such as weapons or armor, and living creatures small enough to fit? They're protected from this essential loss by the energy that is imbued into or moving through them. If you put the family dog into a bag of holding and pulled him back out (before suffocation) the dog will be unchanged. Well. He might have developed a fear of silent, confined, dark spaces... But the essence of what makes him that family's dog? Unchanged. Is it possible, once you understand the essential loss, to create a bag of holding that -doesn't- employ that specific simplistic pocket dimension and thus the essential loss? Possibly! But all the ones that exist were created before you spent 4 levels making your extra special improved bag of holding, so they still suck. [/QUOTE]

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