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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhulae" data-source="post: 3264394" data-attributes="member: 16958">Well, my question to this is:  Why'd you go for the Type IV right off the bat?  A type I and a Haversack would have been half the money, and only weigh 20 lbs.  If you had to 'search out' the Type IV (which I'm assuming from your post), you could have 'searched out' those other two items.My guess, based on nothing else, honestly, is:  Because it's the biggest and holds the most.Looking at the prices of other magic items, 10k gold is *extremely* cheap for what the Bag of Holding IV does.  Since, in all honesty, 10k is so inexpensive considering the amount of loot a party would normally have to leave, but can now haul (such as statues, big artwork, ancient books, piles of silver, anything that fits in the bag but weighs less than 1500 lbs), the bag of holding completely pays for itself.Since that's the case, hitting the adventurers in the only other place that can 'almost' count, the weight they have to carry, is the only other balancing factor the item has.  Since other stronger PCs can carry it, or it can be placed in the cart, on the horses, whatever, even that becomes a small limitation outside of anything except combat.The only other way to balance the item, if you want it to be 'light', is to make it cost something like 100k at least, otherwise, they become the *ultimate* item for an adventuring party to have multiples of because there is *no* other real drawback.Arbitrary? Maybe, but it's the only thing that keeps it balanced.</blockquote>

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