A further thought, gold is dense (19gm/cm3) so your not filling that bag full of coins either - 500 lbs of gold takes up 6.7 ft3 so at best you can fill the bag only 10% full of gold before it bursts.
Why should opening an BoH underwater ever be an issue? Hold it upside down. If your table is into crunching the numbers on depth calculations and finds that fun, go for it, make it a group activity. Just keep it fun for everyone - hardcore no vs. creative problem solving isn't really fun in my experience.
A further thought, gold is dense (19gm/cm3) so your not filling that bag full of coins either - 500 lbs of gold takes up 6.7 ft3 so at best you can fill the bag only 10% full of gold before it bursts.
Does that account for negative space between the coins?
Not really but even counting that it won’t be more than about 1/3 rd more so call it @9 cu. Ft. Or no more than 15% of the bag would be full of gold or platinum at max weight and about 30% for silver or copper which have about half the density.
A further thought, gold is dense (19gm/cm3) so your not filling that bag full of coins either - 500 lbs of gold takes up 6.7 ft3 so at best you can fill the bag only 10% full of gold before it bursts.
RAW, "a standard coin weighs about a third of an ounce, so fifty coins weigh a pound."
Also RAW, "The bag [of holding] can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet."
Beyond that, the game pretty much ignores stuff like the density of gold (or anything else, for that matter) or how big a coin of a given denomination is. The reason for this is that it's a game. The numbers don't have to be exact or even accurate to the real world, because the numbers present in the game are abstractions for the sake of game mechanics.
The bag can hold 500 lbs., and those 500 lbs. must fit within 64 cubic feet. Can 500 lbs. of coins fit within 64 cubic feet? Most likely, especially if we use the numbers you provided. Does it actually matter all that much? Not really.
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A further thought, gold is dense (19gm/cm3) so your not filling that bag full of coins either - 500 lbs of gold takes up 6.7 ft3 so at best you can fill the bag only 10% full of gold before it bursts.
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Why should opening an BoH underwater ever be an issue? Hold it upside down. If your table is into crunching the numbers on depth calculations and finds that fun, go for it, make it a group activity. Just keep it fun for everyone - hardcore no vs. creative problem solving isn't really fun in my experience.
Does that account for negative space between the coins?
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Not really but even counting that it won’t be more than about 1/3 rd more so call it @9 cu. Ft. Or no more than 15% of the bag would be full of gold or platinum at max weight and about 30% for silver or copper which have about half the density.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.
RAW, "a standard coin weighs about a third of an ounce, so fifty coins weigh a pound."
Also RAW, "The bag [of holding] can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet."
Beyond that, the game pretty much ignores stuff like the density of gold (or anything else, for that matter) or how big a coin of a given denomination is. The reason for this is that it's a game. The numbers don't have to be exact or even accurate to the real world, because the numbers present in the game are abstractions for the sake of game mechanics.
The bag can hold 500 lbs., and those 500 lbs. must fit within 64 cubic feet. Can 500 lbs. of coins fit within 64 cubic feet? Most likely, especially if we use the numbers you provided. Does it actually matter all that much? Not really.