Last session, my current party of PCs used a set of enchanted globes to open a portal to the Plane of Earth, allowing a trapped Xorn to return home. After the portal closed, one of the PCs placed the globes inside a bag of holding to prevent the portal being opened again.
Now, I had placed a ward upon the globes stating that, should they be removed from the room where the portal is, they would immediately. Vanish and return to said room. However, for some reason I never considered the PCs using the bag of holding.
Can anyone think of a reason why the bag of holding would prevent the gems returning to their point of origin?
Can anyone think of a reason why the bag of holding would prevent the gems returning to their point of origin?
Not really no. There are several ways to move something from the plane they are on to another and unless you intended for them all to work I see no reason why this would. The extra planar space of a BoH is no unique effect.
Do the players know about the ward? Wether the globe returns to the room or not depends of its design and what you wish.
If you wish to let the globe remain in the Bag of Holding, then so be it, the exact reasons why so need not be known to you or your players. It could have a built in clause that this teleportation back to the room only work while on the same plane of existance and disable when in extradimensional spaces.
If you wish to have the globe return to the room, then so be it, the party will find out it's gone when they next open the Bag of Holding or they may even immediately see it reappear and figure it out.
To me the big question would be if putting them in the bag by itself removes them from the room. It’s an extradimensional space, so is something in the bag still in the room?
Seems like they might have gone in the bag and then just popped right back out. There was a thread recently about putting a glyph of warding in a bag of holding and its implications. You might track that down as it’s a similar issue.
[...] Seems like they might have gone in the bag and then just popped right back out. There was a thread recently about putting a glyph of warding in a bag of holding and its implications. You might track that down as it’s a similar issue.
Thanks for the comments. The dwarf in the party had taken the spheres because they were made from gems. The idea of him opening the BoH and them not being there puts a smile on my face.
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Last session, my current party of PCs used a set of enchanted globes to open a portal to the Plane of Earth, allowing a trapped Xorn to return home. After the portal closed, one of the PCs placed the globes inside a bag of holding to prevent the portal being opened again.
Now, I had placed a ward upon the globes stating that, should they be removed from the room where the portal is, they would immediately. Vanish and return to said room. However, for some reason I never considered the PCs using the bag of holding.
Can anyone think of a reason why the bag of holding would prevent the gems returning to their point of origin?
Not really no. There are several ways to move something from the plane they are on to another and unless you intended for them all to work I see no reason why this would. The extra planar space of a BoH is no unique effect.
Do the players know about the ward? Wether the globe returns to the room or not depends of its design and what you wish.
If you wish to let the globe remain in the Bag of Holding, then so be it, the exact reasons why so need not be known to you or your players. It could have a built in clause that this teleportation back to the room only work while on the same plane of existance and disable when in extradimensional spaces.
If you wish to have the globe return to the room, then so be it, the party will find out it's gone when they next open the Bag of Holding or they may even immediately see it reappear and figure it out.
To me the big question would be if putting them in the bag by itself removes them from the room. It’s an extradimensional space, so is something in the bag still in the room?
Seems like they might have gone in the bag and then just popped right back out. There was a thread recently about putting a glyph of warding in a bag of holding and its implications. You might track that down as it’s a similar issue.
A truly rollercoaster of emotions :D glyph of warding in a bag of holding
Thanks for the comments. The dwarf in the party had taken the spheres because they were made from gems. The idea of him opening the BoH and them not being there puts a smile on my face.