This bag has an interior space considerably larger than its outside dimensions—roughly 2 feet square and 4 feet deep on the inside. The bag can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet. The bag weighs 5 pounds, regardless of its contents. Retrieving an item from the bag requires a Utilize action.
If the bag is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it 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. The bag holds enough air for 10 minutes of breathing, divided by the number of breathing creatures inside.
Placing a Bag of Holding 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 it to a random location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way and can’t be reopened.
Interesting. I've always assumed - and I'm pretty sure others have said - that you can't put a bag of holding in a bag of holding, but this doesn't say that, or even that it's an extradimensional space, and it specifically mentions the handy haversack and the portable hole - but not the bag itself.
Although I just checked the haversack and it does mention the bag of holding as being one of the things you can't put a haversack in, so that's a shame.
Just blatantly ignoring "or similar item"
If the bag is roughly 2 feet square and 4 feet deep on the inside, how can it hold 64 cubic feet in volume?
You've been part of the DnD community for at least 4 years and you've never heard of a Bag of Holding? It's a magic bag which has an extradimensional space within it...
what happens when put something in or take something out of a bag of holding while under water?
Planning on asking my DM if I can have a Bag of Holding flavored as a Lute-Carrying Case (like a Guitar Case)... As a Valor Bard with the musician background, I have six musical instruments and most of those instruments aren't easy to carry around...
.... that.. and i intend to carry an arsenal of weapons in there like Desperado... ... but mostly for the musical instruments!
"This bag has an interior space considerably larger than its outside dimensions—roughly 2 feet square and 4 feet deep on the inside." The *inside* is 8 cubic feet, the outside (based on artistic rendition) looks like maybe 0.5 cubic feet. So already the inside dimensions provided far exceed the exterior dimensions, suggesting that the inside dimensions are accounting for the extra-dimensional space aspect. However, the text later says it can hold up to 64 cubic feet of stuff, which doesn't make sense given the inner dimensions are 8 cubic feet
It would be cool if the 5e design team hired at least one person who passed high school mathematics. And maybe one person who has taken at least one economics course. Until then we'll just have to house rule how math works in a fantasy universe. Maybe 2*4=64 because of magic?
Sigh. This is just pathetic. Now they've gone and "fixed" the outside of the bag (by just giving no description of the exterior whatsoever, beyond its weight and the rather annoying artwork) and instead made the interior contradict itself. Seriously, who is hiring these people?! This is a very basic and simple description with a simple fix! JUST GET RID OF THE 2x2x4 MEASUREMENT ALTOGETHER IF YOU DON'T LIKE LARGE BACKPACKS!
For those that haven't been paying attention over the years, the Bag of Holding has (as far as everything I've found so far) in every single prior edition been described as a 2x2x4 ft. bag, aka: a large backpack (bigger than the gnome barbarian that may want to bear it) that happens to have even more space, 64 cubic ft., of storage magically within.
But then for 5e 2014 the artist didn't pay any attention to the description (or some other stupid miscommunication happened) and they drew a creepy fancy handbag instead of the large backpack it has always been described as. This made many people suffer extreme confusion of what was being conveyed when they saw a description that equals "large backpack" then see the picture of a freaky-faced handbag attached. Contradiction, but at least one that could be understood as just art failure.
Now, I can't say I was particularly attached to the depiction of a large backpack (I actually prefer the idea of it having variable sizes and shapes). But I've always preferred to stick to the official description and depict things from there.
However, now it literally states the interior to be 2 ft. x 2 ft. x 4 ft. and that it holds 64 cubic ft., which a school child can prove is very false (that math gives 16 cu. ft.). Not to mention that the interior of a Bag of Holding (at least in previous descriptions) isn't even a necessarily fixed space, it just has (somehow) a limit to what it can hold.
How. How did this seriously happen? Either get rid of the smug-faced picture, make an accurate picture, get rid of the physical dimensions, make the dimensions make sense across description and art, or just don't give a description in the first place! It isn't that hard!
At least they adjusted the weight to be closer to fitting the "updated exterior", but even then it's too heavy. A 5 lb. handbag that is always functionally, if not technically, empty.
I think the error was in adding the words, "on the inside", since it otherwise seems to be describing the exterior dimensions. And yeah, the artwork is still pretty wrong and dumb.
I'm glad it's only five pounds now, though.
I'm curious more of the description of the bag, I am running a campaign and my players are in an area where they would have zero idea what a bag of holding is. So, if someone were to open a bag of holding and look inside, exactly what do they see. As, the item doesn't say like a portable hole does.