Oddly, my parties do not use the spell: Rope Trick, although I as a player used it extensively in 3.x and during my short tenure as my 5e Wizard.
Their uses of Portable Holes on the other hand are legendary. One Gnome even had a wood and slate construct he designed fitted to the inside of the Hole and used it as a fortification.
I actually suspected this. I do not care what the actual wording of the spells: Rope Trick or Banishment are I treat them as opening up or shunting something into a demi-plane. As such Bags of Holding and Portable Hole interactions do not apply when one or the other is carried into the "hidey hole" at the top of Rope Trick. I am certain someone more slavishly devoted to RAW will argue the opposite, but I doubt Rope Trick was ever intended by Mearls, Crawford and crew to interact with Portable Holes, Haversacks, or Bags of Holding.
I agree with Hawksmoor. The wording on the Bag of Holding is clear; it would only react to being put inside a similar item. Reading between the lines a little, the point of that rule is to prevent exponential storage stacking; if you could nest those items inside each other, you'd have easy access to an unlimited amount of storage space.
None of the groups I run have ever picked up the spell but I did give it to a DM-controlled NPC in the current group I'm DMing for.
The description of bag of holding is pretty clear that the extradimensional spaces must be created by items, not spells.
A DM would have to be rather sadistic to give a party a bag of holding, let them climb into a Rope Trick spell and then send them to the Astral Plane without warning the players that is how he houserules it.
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Question: How many of your parties use the spell Rope Trick?
Follow up: How many of those parties have Bag of Holding?
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-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
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Oddly, my parties do not use the spell: Rope Trick, although I as a player used it extensively in 3.x and during my short tenure as my 5e Wizard.
Their uses of Portable Holes on the other hand are legendary. One Gnome even had a wood and slate construct he designed fitted to the inside of the Hole and used it as a fortification.
The reason I ask is because of the interaction of extradimensional spaces.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
I actually suspected this. I do not care what the actual wording of the spells: Rope Trick or Banishment are I treat them as opening up or shunting something into a demi-plane. As such Bags of Holding and Portable Hole interactions do not apply when one or the other is carried into the "hidey hole" at the top of Rope Trick. I am certain someone more slavishly devoted to RAW will argue the opposite, but I doubt Rope Trick was ever intended by Mearls, Crawford and crew to interact with Portable Holes, Haversacks, or Bags of Holding.
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The description of bag of holding is pretty clear that the extradimensional spaces must be created by items, not spells.
A DM would have to be rather sadistic to give a party a bag of holding, let them climb into a Rope Trick spell and then send them to the Astral Plane without warning the players that is how he houserules it.