Bag of Holding

A bag of holding was a small sack that acted as an opening to an extradimensional space. The space inside the bag could hold a huge amount of materials without increasing the weight of the bag.
This bag has an interior space considerably larger than its outside dimensions, roughly 2 feet in diameter at the mouth and 4 feet deep. The bag can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet.
The bag weighs 15 pounds, regardless of its contents. Retrieving an item from the bag requires an action. If the bag is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it ruptures and is destroyed, and its contents are scattered in the Astral Plane. If the bag is turned inside out, its contents spill forth, unharmed, but the bag must be put right before it can be used again. Breathing creatures inside the bag can survive up to a number of minutes equal to 10 divided by the number of creatures (minimum 1 minute), after which time they begin to suffocate.
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.

Description

The bag of holding seemed like an ordinary bag on the outside, but it could hold more than it appeared to be able to, so it was used to ease transportation of items.

Variants

There were similar magical bags to the bag of holding:

• Bag of Transmuting
• Bag of Devouring
• Bag of Colding
• Heward's Handy Haversack
• Heward's Handy Pouch
• Portable Hole
• Pouch of Accessibility

Powers

A typical bag of holding could hold up to 500 lb (227 kg) of material that did not exceed a volume of 64 cubic feet (1812 l), although other types with different capacities existed. The bag also allowed a few of minutes of breathing air for creatures that would enter it. It could sustain temporarily a breathing creature for up to 10 minutes.

A bag of holding had the ability to...hold...many items.
If a bag of holding was placed in extradimensional space like a portable hole both would be lost forever, but a rift to the Astral Plane was opened. If a bag of holding got overloaded or pierced by something sharp, it and everything in it would be lost forever.
Versions of the bag of holding found after the Second Sundering did not destroy its contents if torn or destroyed. Instead, they were scattered in the Astral Plane. Some of those items are still there today.

Bag of Holding

Wondrous item, uncommon
Minor tier
15 lb.

Item type

Magical

Current Holder

Sas W.T. Rayce

Rarity

Uncommon (Minor Tier)

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The Mighty Menagerie found one on the corpses of the Outding Refuge adventurers in the Sahuagin Crystal Cave, in Session 03: Sahuagin Threat Report.
Currently: Held by Sas W.T. Rayce

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Crafting Recipe:

Materials:

• A large 2 x 4 ft. bag woven from material of the astral plane (such as one a Githyanki would possess, or made from the mane of a Foo Lion)
• jacinth gemstone (value at least 1,000gp)
• One ornately carved bar of silver (worth at least 100gp in silver, not craftsmanship)

Instructions:

Assemble or acquire a bag from astral plane material. Secure the chain and gem at the opening of the bag.

Proficiencies:

Weaver’s Tools if weaving the bag oneself, Leatherworking.

Material CR Range:

4-8

Cost:

Additional investement of 200 gp

Workweeks:

2

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Found On: Magic Item Table A, Magic Item Table B
Source: DMG, page 153. Available in the SRD and the Basic Rules.