This bag has an interior space considerably larger than its outside dimensions, roughly 2 feet in diameter at the mouth and 4 feet deep. The bag can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet. The bag weighs 15 pounds, regardless of its contents. Retrieving an item from the bag requires an action.
If the bag is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it ruptures and is destroyed, and its contents are scattered in the Astral Plane. If the bag is turned inside out, its contents spill forth, unharmed, but the bag must be put right before it can be used again. Breathing creatures inside the bag can survive up to a number of minutes equal to 10 divided by the number of creatures (minimum 1 minute), after which time they begin to suffocate.
Placing a bag of holding inside an extradimensional space created by a 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 10 feet of the gate is sucked through it to a random location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way only and can’t be reopened.
Notes: Utility, Container
I've never understood why a overloaded, pierced, or torn bag spills it's contents into the Astral plane. The extradimensional space should exist in the Ethereal, so a punctured bag should dump everything there, and not the astral.
Regardless of what you have in the bag, the bag always weighs 15 pounds. There is nothing to calculate, regardless of how much stuff you throw in or take out of the bag, it's always only going to weigh 15 pounds.
I do believe that the magnificent mansion and it's sister spells actually create demiplanes, (see: alternate planes like the elemental planes) not pockets of astral space.
In spirit, no I don't think so. After all, that mansion wouldn't be very useful if you couldn't bring your gear with you now would it?
If you create a bag of holding with the artificer infusion and later infuse an object that would cause the BoH to revert to a normal bag, what happens to the items inside when the magic wears off?
Generally, I would think, in that instance, the contents spew forth into the space the bag is in. Also, when in an area of anti-magic, the bag's magic would be suppressed, and its contents inaccessible, but still contained. At least, that's how previous editions tended to address those matters.
Quick question. So one of my more creative players decided that the best way to deal with an air elemental in combat was to put him in the bag of holding. It worked and he has an air elemental in a bag of holding.
My question is what would happen to the elemental? Would it suffocate after 10 minutes or would he be able to pull the elemental out of the bag after a time?
Ingredients:
2 Bags of Holding
The Mage Hand cantrip
Instructions:
1. Toss one bag of holding near the BBEG
2. Use Mage Hand to place the second Bag of Holding into the first one
The BBEG is now stuck in the astral plane
Anyone can take out of the bag as long as they know what contents are being pulled. They can't just hope to find an item they think is in there. At least that's usually how the unspoken rule went in previous editions.
the bag of holding can only hold 64 cubic feet of anything. so it would have 64 cubic feet of water in it.
@Jellyfish936 Mage hand is only capable of moving up to 10lbs while BoH weighs 15 so wouldn't be able to lift it. You'd need telekinesis for that.
Except that 64 cubic feet of water weighs nearly 4000 pounds.
About 8.5 cubic feet would be 500 pounds so that's all it could do.
Previous Edition listed it as Conjuration.
I think so, but the person trying to steal out of the bag would have to know the object they are looking for. I'm not completely sure.
As a DM, touche
Edit
Truthfully because you couldn’t stop water from entering the capacity would be reached and overloaded and it would break sending the water to the Astral Plane.
Note to self or others wanting to do the math: Assuming 50 coins weighs one pound, a bag of holding can hold 25,000 coins. 500,000 GP would require 20 bags of holding to carry.
@Matalis only 2 bags are needed if you use platinum instead of gold (1 platinum = 10 gold)
Completely understood. I did the math for those (including myself) who may be doing comparative math for Waterdeep Dragon Heist.