Why the heck are bags of holding so heavy?

[Notmousse]

C'mon! 60lbs for a bag?!

 

[shilsen]

But it's a magic bag!

 

[kaomera]

Magic is heavy, man!

 

[GwydapLlew]

To clue in experienced players as to which version of the bag of holding they have.

 

[Piratecat]

It's still lighter than the dead party member's corpse that you're bound to shove in there at some point.

 

[kaomera]

It's still lighter than the dead party member's corpse that you're bound to shove in there at some point.

Wait... He's dead before you stick him in the bag??? How does that work?

 

[Goolpsy]

he dies again from suffocation...

Well if any processes happends in the bag at all, he does rotten much slower cause there's no air...

 

[KarinsDad]

The real question you should be asking is:

Why are bags of holding so freaking huge?

2x4 is a very large bag for small creatures to carry and is not exactly easy to carry for medium creatures.

It makes an easy target for any opponent that wants to puncture it.

 

[frankthedm]

Gee, so the bag seems full of stuff at first glance. Someone sees you taking an object out of an empty sack and they will know it is magic.

The weight might come from a lump of dark matter or magicly powered electromagnet keeping the hole in reality semi-stable.

 

[Jhulae]

Oh, I don't know..

Maybe because it's letting you carry 3/4ths of a ton?

Yeah, maybe the Type IV isn't as efficient as the Type III (25 lbs per lb of bag weight as opposed to 28.5 lbs per lb of bag weight), but... 1500 lbs of junk. For 60 lbs.

I'd say that's more than acceptable.