This unassuming cloth sack looks similar to a Bag of Holding, though it has an unsettling tendency to feel financially judgmental.
The bag’s interior space is considerably larger than its outside dimensions—roughly 2 feet square and 4 feet deep within its extradimensional interior. The bag can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding 64 cubic feet in volume. Regardless of its contents, the bag itself always weighs 5 pounds.
Retrieving an item from the bag requires an action. However, the Bag of Withholding has one important difference from its more generous cousin:
Whenever a creature attempts to retrieve an item, the bag demands a payment of 5 gold pieces.
The coins vanish into the bag with a satisfied rustling noise before the requested item is produced. If the payment is not provided, the bag simply refuses to cooperate, remaining stubbornly closed and perhaps faintly smug.
Coins paid to the bag cannot be recovered by any means short of divine intervention, extreme luck, or convincing the DM that the bag has developed a conscience.
If the bag is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it is destroyed and its contents are scattered across the Astral Plane. If the bag is turned inside out, its contents spill forth unharmed, though the bag must be righted before it can be used again.
The bag holds enough air for 10 minutes of breathing, divided by the number of breathing creatures inside. Placing the Bag of Withholding inside an extradimensional space created by a Heward’s 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 a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on the gate is sucked through to a random location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way and cannot be reopened.
Some scholars believe the Bag of Withholding is simply a Bag of Holding that discovered capitalism.
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