• Category: Items
• Item Rarity: Uncommon
• Weight: 15

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.

Okay, so one of the main takeaways here is that the opening is only 2 feet wide. The shoulder width of a regular-sized human male (sans armour) is about 1.5 feet. Believe me, I just measured.

So yeah, your halfling bard in leather armour can probably make it into the bag alright (if he takes off his own travel pack and unslings his lute from his back), but that goliath in full plate? Definitely not.

Also the limit of 500 pounds is something that most adventuring parties will happily overlook, as is the actual space inside there. 64 cubic feet is equivalent to a cube measuring 4 feet on either side. Represented nicely here by this man standing beside two cords of wood measuring roughly 64 cubic feet:

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.

Want to create a real sense of danger in an otherwise boring fight? Whenever the Bag of Holding holder gets hit by an arrow, have them do a luck roll to make sure the bag wasn’t hit.

Or, better yet, have an enemy smart enough to aim for the bag. *chaos ensues*

Plus, if the party thinks that they’ve really shown the baddy by chucking them in the bag to suffocate, they might want to think again seeing as the bag can be damaged from the inside as well: 

The inside of a bag of holding is an extradimensional space, and the bag can be damaged from the inside. #DnD https://t.co/5OHQU16a4m

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) September 17, 2015

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.

Most of the issue when it comes to the “hey let’s all just get in the bag” plan comes from what we mentioned above, both about the small size of the opening as well as the actually-quite-limited-space within the bag.

But if you are letting your players pile on in, the lack of breathable air can lead to some interesting situations.

Placing a bag of holding inside an extradimensional space created by a 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.”

It doesn’t state it outright, but we’re assuming placing any other extradimensional space within the Bag of Holding itself would likely have similar results.

There is an interesting debate regarding the wording here, though. Specifically “extradimensional space created by a Handy Haversack, Portable Hole, or similar item.”

The use of “item” here, some argue, allows spells that create extradimensional spaces (ie. Rope Trick, Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion, etc.) to have a bag of holding inside of them without a similarly catastrophic event.