I'm currently DMing my first campaign and one of my party members has got a bag of holding. Today my party had a big fight with a Troll, in which they sliced off some of his limbs. It came as it had to come and my barbarian grabbed the troll's disembodied right leg and put it in his bag of holding, because "it could get useful later". Now I had the idea that at some point in the future when he tries to take the leg out of his bag, it has regenerated to a small, mutated offspring of the Troll. My question is, as creatures that are put in the bag only have 10 minutes of air, would the leg still die? Since it's a leg, it doesn't really need to breathe right?
You are inventing this situation and all the rules around it, so you get to invent the breathing rules. In this case, let's take inspiration from all the weird mutant trolls from MToF. This troll has evolved from a severed leg placed into an airless inter-dimensional bag. The resulting creature would by necessity not need much air to live. Perhaps it is now a Void Troll, one large leg, small body. Doesn't breathe air, moves often by short teleportation jumps learned from the magical nature of the bag. Able to change its size too. You can use that rough description to whip up a quick stat block and away you go...
I think it should be a troll, but be a small creature (so it can fit into the bag of holding). If the troll grew beyond the bounds of the bag it would "If the bag is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it ruptures and is destroyed, and its contents are scattered in the Astral Plane"
This would strand the troll in the Astral Plane along with all the contents of the bag, and destroy the bag.... none of which seem fun.
Maybe have it regenerate a little different as an effect. So if the party crits it with a non fire/acid attack maybe it splits into 2 trolls with half hp of the original... a bit like puddings.
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I'm currently DMing my first campaign and one of my party members has got a bag of holding. Today my party had a big fight with a Troll, in which they sliced off some of his limbs. It came as it had to come and my barbarian grabbed the troll's disembodied right leg and put it in his bag of holding, because "it could get useful later". Now I had the idea that at some point in the future when he tries to take the leg out of his bag, it has regenerated to a small, mutated offspring of the Troll. My question is, as creatures that are put in the bag only have 10 minutes of air, would the leg still die? Since it's a leg, it doesn't really need to breathe right?
You are inventing this situation and all the rules around it, so you get to invent the breathing rules. In this case, let's take inspiration from all the weird mutant trolls from MToF. This troll has evolved from a severed leg placed into an airless inter-dimensional bag. The resulting creature would by necessity not need much air to live. Perhaps it is now a Void Troll, one large leg, small body. Doesn't breathe air, moves often by short teleportation jumps learned from the magical nature of the bag. Able to change its size too. You can use that rough description to whip up a quick stat block and away you go...
I like some of RegentCorreon ideas,
I think it should be a troll, but be a small creature (so it can fit into the bag of holding). If the troll grew beyond the bounds of the bag it would "If the bag is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it ruptures and is destroyed, and its contents are scattered in the Astral Plane"
This would strand the troll in the Astral Plane along with all the contents of the bag, and destroy the bag.... none of which seem fun.
Maybe have it regenerate a little different as an effect. So if the party crits it with a non fire/acid attack maybe it splits into 2 trolls with half hp of the original... a bit like puddings.