What are your best uses for a bag of holding? (r/DnD)

D&D Player's around the globe welcome if you have any stories to contribute about today's topic do so in the comments below but for now do tell me what are your best worst weirdest wildest craziest uses for a bag of holding so my halfling chef Paul Dean wants to make pasta on the road but we don't have a colander can he just pour the cooked pasta into the bag then request the water to fall out then call on the pasta for easy draining what similar uses might it have in such a whimsical campaign it's brilliant although where would you draw the line if the bag can separate any mixture can it separate solutions to put seawater into the bag ask for fresh water you have potable water even if you're stuck on a raft in the ocean and you have salt which you can sell for a good price put roadkill on the bag ask for edible meat the bank strips the roadkill of its fur bones and any diseased or rotten material and hands you only the meat that is edible put a haystack in the bag ask for a needle you can find a needle in a haystack in seconds maybe a needle isn't the most important thing but you could use it to sift through rubble or any special items if it can detect specific magic items then take all the goblets off of the shelf in the cave at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade shove them all in through the bag and then request the Holy Grail voila no rapidly aging into ancient piles of dust for you or your party so as I said where would you draw the line using it as a colander is obviously harmless and fine but it turns out that using a magical sorting spell could actually be incredibly powerful in certain situations even with fifth editions explicit restrictions on size and weight a bag of holding is phenomenal for smuggling weapons hauling large quantities of bricks quickly tossing send weapons and bricks up three stories to the hidden rogue who unloads the bag and promptly constructs the most elaborate crushing trap he can devise to fall off a roof in anticipation of the stupidest assassination mission ever toss the bag back down reload it with regular cargo back at the end and casually causes scene an hour later causing the dignitary to stop right under the trap what a tragic incident so much blood mm-hmm who knows what they were building up there we didn't even have to use the weapons I play a necromancer in store all of my undead and my bag of holding it takes a while to get them all in and out but my party still thinks I'm just an indecisive wizard who could never pick a school of magic to study because they don't constantly travel with us use it to pretend to be a by stuffing a limb in it and tying it around your shoulder or thigh or whatever it's not a bluff when you're actually missing the leg that's kind of brilliant the malicious compliance diem in me would allow this but then remove the water from the cooked pasta making it dried out again best use I've seen was to kill a slime kept rolling to shove it in the bag taking damage each time barely managed to get it all in with everyone else dumping healing spells into the Shover to keep him alive a friend of mine used to store spells and bags of holding through cliff of warding he'd set a trigger to whenever someone yells name of spell into the bag of holding those glyphs trigger on whoever yelled into it it was expensive but it was super amusing when the party had to stop every now and then to yell into the bag whenever we needed buffs before kicking down the door of a big bad I casually mentioned to my players you could fill a bag of holding with bricks or rocks and just turn it inside out and they'd all appear I may have made a terribly wonderful mistake my favorite use of an extra dimensional bag comes from the third edition stronghold builders guidebook a cursed bag of holding is called a bag of devouring it works as a bag of holding but has a chance of eating all your stuff in the guidebook they recommend seeking these bags out and putting them in bottom of the stronghold sewage system or waste disposal chute the bag will slowly fill up and eat the waste this probably doesn't technically work but I allowed one halfling thief to get in one and the other half length 'if put it partially open in his back pocket go to a merchant while a hand sneaks out of the back pocket and steals things from the shop displays I'm confused it sounds like everyone in this threat is talking about a handy haversack not a bag of holding a bag of holding doesn't just give you what you want it has an opening you reach in through the haversack is the one that gives you the item you want and even then it's not magically popping up just magically on top you have to be careful with bags of holding specifically with regard to storing food they're huge and you cannot imagine the amount of crumbs and mold that accumulates that should inevitably attracts mice not just the normal kind that steal into your bags while you sleep but also the extra dimensional meta mice meta mice will nibble on your magical items gradually eroding their effectiveness sometimes leaving minor curses behind they also leave the equivalent of droppings called flivver which looks like nothing so much as rice grains made out of colorful glitter depending on the diet of the meta mice that left it flivver can have all sorts of quirky unexpected effects both beneficial and otherwise the more adventurous alchemists and potion makers prized it but it requires a delicate hand and expert precautions aerosolized flivver dust can be especially dangerous and has been known to cause many a tragical magical malady for unwary bag of holding owners I've jumped into my bag of holding multiple times to evade law enforcement and Merchants you'd normally suffocate so lizard folk was pretty useful in that aspect holding breath very fun to use as a sneaky type just steal or do some crazy and when it gets sketchy just go around the corner and jump into a bag so I have a player read the full description of bag of holding between sessions I had no idea and did not think much of it they knew they were heading to a small fight and it was in a crypt D&D classic am i right well they push through a couple traps fights and found a stream the player sent wait up I have good idea he gave all the stuff in his bag to players to hold it was a bunch of random stuff I'm a rule nazi about it if you do not write it down and it did not happen or you do not have it I hate non note-takers but understand well he takes great notes and we had like a twenty minute laughs session as it was emptied he put the bag in the stream and let it fill I warned him he could not tell when it was full but he could guess make an intelligent roll 18 okay you have a good idea based on the speed of the stream and what you know of the magic I rolled a percentile dice my favorite thing to really decide stupid things 100 okay you think it is about full I let it get to max capacity they continue forward and during the boss fight I would say around halfway through it was a tough one he said back to the door guest wall of stone Blair took a five men out of character talk and he did not answer anything just trust me he texted me what he planned on doing I actually laughed out loud okay they all back out and a wall of stone goes up stucco I this he turns the bag inside out and makes everything in the bag come out he cast a mention door and popped out next to everyone soaking wet he filled the room with water I made a roll against the wall and it held but took damage they waited 10 minutes they dropped the wall idiots right I made them make deck saves and they all knew why I use tidal wave stats and made the DC super high they all took some damage but they won the fight in an epic way and deserve some inspiration and a story that we talk about now they are playing a new campaign and last night used an empty keg to make a fire to lure people out of a stronghold these players are a riot to play with my campaigns bag of holding operates more like a woman's purse except that what you want is always on top instead of buried somewhere beneath the seat from 2015 and a ruined powder compact close to an almost empty tube of chapstick the slightly sticky come to think of it I gave the bag of holding to the other woman in the group probably because she asked what should be in her backpack and I said empty your purse and remove the things that are obviously modern and can't be swapped out for a Victorian version I had to turn incumbrance off in roll 20 because we realized that we carry way too much crap in our purses I have an actual recipe for bread that works perfectly for a bag of holding bag Oh holdin bread oh I am excited mix some flour salt and water add seeds or coarser grains such as rye to your preference a tiny sprinkle of dry yeast anyone with proficiency with cooking utensils er someone with druid crafts can easily manage this let rinse for about 12 to 14 hours inside a bag of holding heat a cast iron pot dump the dough in the pot and bake for 45 minutes the recipe works just fine with open bonfires as you cook it in a cast-iron pot a common item for anyone with cooking skills even adventurers in the harshest conditions can enjoy freshly baked bread at the end of any long rest as long as they can produce heat for the pot after a nice breakfast mix a new dough and put it in the bag of holding for the next day everyone Brian here here's hoping everyone is doing well if you like the video then please leave a big thumbs up and if you're new here hey welcome consider leaving us a subscribe and ringing that bell the Bell just makes sure you get notifications when a new video or streams going live and honestly YouTube's pretty bad at that so the Bell actually does help to keep further update on everything we do I suggest giving us a look on our respective social media platforms for Ripper you can always follow him on Twitter or join us discord both of which can be found in the 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Length: 12min 41sec (761 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 21 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Paulieboi67]

In our current session, the bag of holding is used to store our dead bodies. We ended up using a couple bodies as food and it ended up saving us. We also made it so that if you swing a dead body it does 1d6.

[u/KingofGerbil]

A trick we've used a few times.

Party: We have _________ for you. It's in this bag, take it.

Character who is about to have a bad day: Okay, I'll just take a look in there...

[u/pazdispencer]

First session I ever played we had the prison break beginning to our quest. A war broke out outside the castle and a huge boulder smashed out prison walls freeing us. Our Wizard, also first time player, was really eager for combat and asked the GM if there were any weapons for him to pick up. GM: no, there are no weapons kept near the dungeons. Wiz: but what about the wall? Aren’t there rocks? GM: (trying time control our access to weapons for at least the first half hour of the first session) yes, but the blast shattered it to bits. There are no rocks larger than your fist. Wizard gets disappointed until our rogue jimmied open a closet and stumbled on a bag of holding (there was a treasure room the GM was going to lead us to to get our start and he wanted to make sure we could get out of there with whatever loot we earned) Wiz: that’s perfect! GM: ...why? Wiz: I pick up ALL the rocks and put them in the bag.

This may not seem like much but for the next year and a half of playing whenever the Wizard got board he’d reach into the bag of holding and tell the GM “I throw a rock”. Seeming never running out of them. This one gag started so many additional plot threads that it took us forever to complete the main campaign. But man we’re those tangents fun. :)

[u/person22321]

A necromancer I play with uses them to store skeleton hoards with all but one equipped with clubs while one holds another bag and repeats the loop two more times the dm nerfed it and said he had to roll a d20 for each skeleton with a bag saying something like "to make this more fair roll to instruct the skeletons with bags " so if the first succeeds but the other two fail there would be a skeleton hitting enemies with a bag if bag 1 and bag 3 succeed but bag 2 fails then bag 2 basically explodes a bunch of bones

[u/E_Delta88]

Our halfling druid used one as a pillbox that his Gorilla carried around. He'd just chill in there with a crossbow and rave sticks drawing everyone's attention and generally being a nuisance while the paladin questioned his life choices, our ranger took potshots at people, and I (the Arcane Trickster Drow) slunk around being a lethal kleptomaniac... Our DM was not amused.

[u/BrAtAnChiK228]

One of the campaigns i was playing, we were nearing the pre-final boss and then the bbeg, The king of the city and the lich controling him. Me, to DM: are there any shops nearby? Dm: yeah, a weaponsmith, a tavern, and a magical shop. Me: Can i buy 2 bags of holding? DM, confused: okay sure whatever. You know where this is going. Yep, i put a bag of holding into a different bag of holding. In the middle of the bossfight with the king( a mighty wizard) the lich shows up. I tell the dm i run at them and put one bag into the another. The dm is more confused. He googles what would happen, and, after reading a bit, turns the phone off. The table is quiet. DM, as a last resort: make a dex check. Me: i got 18, is that a pass? DM, internal suffering: You create a black hole in the middle of the room. It instantly kills the bbeg, the king and your character. The campaign is over. Goodbye.

This was a good game

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[u/Magnummuskox]

After a tavern brawl, we had a few PCs that ended up in a local jail, with all their items locked away. Our rogue breaks in and scoops everything into his Bag of Holding. Including another PC’s Bag of Holding.

A black hole opened up and the campaign world was destroyed on the first night.

[u/IminNeedofaHug]

Late, but whatever.

It wasn't the Bag of Holding, but the Handy Haversack. My Bardic Rogue Elf and the Roguish Monk Gnome were trying to break into a house to steal something that we needed and time was of the essence apparently. We had barely stealthed onto the roof across from where we needed to go and RM had just failed a skill check to get to the other side.

I had a brilliant idea and told the RM to hold his breath. I "shoved" the gnome into the haversack and used my feat to Misty Step to the other roof after confirming the distance with the DM. It was an automatic success. I reasoned that since I can only teleport myself with Misty Step, I would make sure the Gnome wasn't technically with me since the Handy Haversack had a different plane of existence inside the pouches. I used it again when we set off the alarm and had to get out.