What are your best uses for a bag of holding? (r/DnD)
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A party member once put herself into a bag of holding and demanded that another party member throw her down a mountainside to save her some travel time.
I’d give them a decent check to get out of the bag after that
Heh yeah, I also had the other player roll to throw her. Let’s just say that that whole thing didn’t turn out too great
Oh what happened? Nat 1 I’m guessing but do you remember the aftermath?
It’s a bit fuzzy but I remember them begging to pretend the last minute didn’t happen lol
Hah
We were in a campaign where everytime we entered a castle, we had to deposit our weapons, including arcane focuses, at the entrance. After a while, we started to smuggle our fully-armed warforged PC in a bag of holding. For anyone who doesn't know, warforged don't need to breathe, so he didn't suffocate. We also ruled that he could use the senses of his Familiar while inside. We stopped two assasination attempts with smuggled daggers by letting him out - apparently, minimal armed assasins surrender when a fully-armed Robot appears out of nowhere.
HOUSE RULE: Anything going into a bag of holding goes into suspended animation. So putting fully cooked meals into the bag allows them to come out at the exact freshness & temperature they went in.
Later, during a large battle, a Ballista was fired at the player. He rolled high and caught the ballista Bolt in the bag of holding. He then argued that since the bolt is in suspended animation it has all the kinetic energy still trapped around it. In another session he fired his ballista bolt out of the bag of holding, down the hallway, at a group of cultists.
Good times.
I would reward that kind of thinking with inspiration, and a magic item.
@@dreamwolf7302 I did. The players eventually created a "broach of holding" which could be attached to a cloak. The cloak became the mouth of the bag and so the player could reach into the cloak to grab whatever they wanted.
It effectively made them video game characters who had a hundred potions and fifteen weapons which they could switch between at will.
now i like that trick, if he failed BOOM he dead and so the parry :P or lost arms
@@paulschumacher4308 now this is cool to know it even was an idea.
I'm just impressed he caught a ballista boot in the bad lmfao
Our groups bag of holding was actually a mimic we promptly named "holdy". In order to reach in the bag without getting your arm chomped off, you have to give it "mimic nip" to calm it down.
When a particular enemy wanted their item back, we told him it was in the bag... You can figure out the rest.
I haven't had a chance to execute it yet, but this is a plan I have:
1. Play a bard
2. Get a bag of holding
3. Befriend a goblin that can play the piano
4. Get a piano and put it in the bag
5. Instant background music for performances (or dramatic scenes)
Pefect
Get an entire backing band, or a drummer to rimshot when you tell a joke.
You are my friend now, we must play d&d together some day
bad news there's a hard limit on the amount of air in the bag of holding you might want to look into that before you stuff your goblin in there
Puppet Master only if you fully close the bag, dont have a breathing reed, or dont open it from time to time
Artificers can temporarily turn regular bags into bags of holding with an infusion. This is great for disposal. Fill the bag with anything you want GONE, and then pierce it with any weapon you have on hand to scatter the contents across the astral plane. Then cast mending to fix the now non-magical bag, and after your next long rest reactivate the infusion to turn it into a bag of holding once again. Repeat as necessary.
also why 2 artificers working together can be really scary
@@Nathan-qp9uv Holy shit, yeah. One of the artificers can even be a Battlesmith, who can have their disposable Steel Defender set off the Bag of Holding bomb.
Heya Rip-Senpai. Our party's Artificer(the man from Japan) was asked to give a lecture on magic items at a university and how Artificers work because Artificers are a rarity in our campaign and the university wants more Artificers. Artificers have the ability to give mundane items the property of magic items via Artificer Infusions, one of them being a Bag of Holding. This gem happened when he asked the only Artificer student in the university:
Artificer: Do you know how to make your own bag of holding?
DM as the Student: Yes.
Artificer: Okay, I want you to give me your bag of holding so I can put my bag of holding in your bag of holding as a demonstration to the audience.
DM as the DM: What does that do? No seriously, what does that do?
Artificer: Wait you don't know?
DM as the DM: No...?
Artificer: If you put a bag of holding inside a bag of holding, handy haversack or portable hole...you create a black hole to the Astral Plane.
DM as the DM: Really? You serious?
Artificer: Yeah.
DM as the Student: I DON'T THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO CREATE A BLACK HOLE IN FRONT OF MY CLASSMATES.
Would the student have known that though?
@@burritodoggo122 Maybe? Common knowledge for most adventurers I think
Tehnically it's just a temporary vortex, not a black hole
Yiannis Pimentel Why would the Artificer want to commit suicide though? Teleporting to the Astral Plane without a means of quickly getting back is literally suicide, unless the Artificer wants get fucked up by an Astral Dreadnought or one of the other many deadly beings in the Astral Plane.
@@bobwilson679 It's a 10ft by 10ft vortex.
He just needed to stay away 10ft via Mage Hand.
I feel the bag of holding is the most well known item in DND, if not the deck of many things
Realist Demon a year or so ago the only magic item I knew was a plus one sword (I was new to dnd as a player and was playing mines of phandelver) but I didn’t take it I’m as oh there are cool magic items in this game I just thought ooh cool sword, and the barbarian with a great axe has it, great (the barbarian used it like twice but kept it on him for the entire game)
I knew about the bag of holding years and years before I even played d&d
I definitely think it's more the Bag of Holding. There are series of books, video games, etc. that reference, if not include bags of holding.
Jimmy Neutron had bags of holding. That where i discovered those for the first time
I've lost more characters to the deck of many things then actual combat
I realised the other day, Artificers have the capacity to make dimension bombs!
> Make a bag of holding (put traps/bombs/spells/etc. in it if you want), tie a string to it.
> Cast rope trick (with a 6-10ft rope)
> Create a (disposable) follower of some kind and have it sit inside the rope trick space, holding the bag by the string so it hangs outside the space.
> When bad-guys come past, have the follower pull the bag of holding into the rt space
> Extra-dimensional space enters an extra-dimensional space, sucking everything within 10ft of the opening into the astral plane.
as the meme goes, never let engineers play D&D
It's not just artificers, any magic-casting class that gets rpoe trick and unseen servant can do it.
@@lucaswinsor4469 yes, but it's artificers who can make bags of holding, which changes it from being a super costly trap to one you can do daily
@@timothymonk1356 fair point
I load mine with nitroglycerin, powder kegs, dynimite, and bombs, my brewing tools and a grenade launcher. I need to install air tanks in it too. You know, incase I need to have people breath. Note....I ain't responsible for the massive explosion....
If you're the artificer in your party, then make some iron lungs and attune to them. No more need for air tanks.
My players found a homebrew bag of holding that has infinite storage and can open as wide as a house, my players then started collecting dirt and tees and putting them in the bag, this caused oxygen to be in the bag due to the trees. They then started putting seeds and animals in it, then they started stuffing Npcs and houses in it, they kept this up and kept putting things in until they had created their own world in the bag. The campaign then went from killing the bbeg to creating their own world in the bag.
I once had a player use his bag of holding to collect lemons for 6months of downtime. Then in a wild moment of opportunity, rip the bag open to blow up a train with too many lemons.
"When life gives you lemons... save them so you can blow up a train"
When the DM gives you lemons...
(Insert mega man joke here) but seriously, cool story.
Cave Johnson:nice work engineers, now I can burn life’s house down
@@jordanhansen5934 lol great line.
I once cast enlarge/reduce on a bag of holding, put it over a dragon's head and ripped the bag, instantly severing the dragon's head from it's body and throwing it into the astral plane
I now have a strategy for when I fight dragons.
I knew a BoH going into another BoH was an Astral Plane nuke, but knowing a torn BoH sends its contents to the Astral Plane when ripped is news to me.
Finally someone with a story that actually makes sense with how the BoH works.
My dad used to tell me his DND story, One of his story comes to mind! He and his friends were fighting a dragon,and his turn came up. He’s a Bard. He decides to cut open the bag of holding he has and Chucks it into the dragons mouth. He rolls and succeeded! The dragon turned inside out!
*squishy dragon goo flies everywhere* Care for a tune?
lol
that's also one of the prescribed methods for dealing with Acererak in Tomb of Horrors
Well rulewise that's not how bags of holding work. If you rip one it just sends the inside of the bag to the astral plane.
To send the outside to the astral plane you need to stick it in a portal
Awesome
@@codebracker and wouldn't that be instantaneous. *scratches head
In my current campaign, we keep a “bag of holding”-like barrel in which we regularly keep our pet eldritch abomination, we were able to make air holes so he can breath. My bugbear rogue may be mean but he loves pets!
So I've been playing a campaign with some friends for a while. So I wanted to introduce myself except to Dnd but she's all nerd and full geek just like our dm (yes I was trying to hook them up. ) So we were going up against on of the stronger big bad and he was reckon us as he kept using a portable hole. Honestly one of the more annoying enemies until I heard her ask our DM "so he's using it as a shield?" this would become the iconic quote of the group as what happened next broke our DM. playing a human ranger she took her bow and said "I would like to tie a 5 pound object to my arrow and aim for for his chest." she proceeds roll low and almost jump out of her seat with excitement, clearly confused the DM says "the arrow fall into the portable hole..." she sits back in her chair smug af.
I turn and ask "what did you tie to your arrow" and she replies "a bag of holding I pinned open.
And I swear I heard my DM's inner voice scream as he uttered the words "you hear a loud bang as a 10 by 10 foot sphere of pure darkness engulfs your enemy and then nothing"
I prefer the homebrew "satchel of static storage". It essentially puts items inside spheres inside itself, freezes time inside the sphere, and shuffles them around inside, effectively turning it into a bag of marbles. This makes it impossible to use as a stealth or concealment device, because anyone contained in the bag is unaware of time outside the bag. Meats and food items won't decay or be damaged. Spells won't fade. Anything that goes in comes back out exactly as it went in. If it doesn't fit through the mouth of the bag (which expands to about a 16 inch diameter) it won't fit inside the orb within the bag and will effectively be cut to size with any overhang being vaporized. So, only small weapons will fit. Fluids can fill the orb entirely, and have multiple orbs provided the command word is spoken for each. As for number of items that can fit, I give the bag a "memory capacity". I have a small notebook. I take one page and the rule is, if they can write it, it fits. They have to name the item they want as it is written on the page, to recall it from the bag, so non-verbal languages mean irretrievable items. (I had a friend try to use a cipher to expand the bag, but it was only a written language.) I've seen people try using it with only a vague understanding of the bag, and they wind up with shortened swords, blunted spears, broken bows, and even a goblin who was unfortunate enough to lose his limbs and most of the top half of his skull. The best use for it is a ranger who used it to store types of enchanted bolts. He would bundle them and toss them in and use the verbal recall to get what he wanted quickly and conveniently. It also works for explosives or darts quite well. With caution, the party even rescued a little girl by polymorphing her into a mouse and throwing her into the bag. Granted, they had to dispel the polymorph later, or wait for the spell to expire in it's near-entirety, but she was safe and convenient to transport. In theory it could be used to transport an entire city in this way. After all, nicknames or ID numbers work as well. You just have to decide them when you invoke the power of the bag. Also, by partially turning the neck of the bag inside out, orbs can be removed from it. I treat the opening as a wrap/unwrap system. Going in, it wraps. Coming out, it unwraps. But if it's turned inside out, it won't do either. So you can orb things, and turn the bag's mouth inside out to pull out that stasis orb. Throw it and dispel the orb, and the contents rapidly expand to normal size, and come out of stasis. You throw a marble, but hit with a fireball. You store a block of concrete in an orb, throw a marble, and hit with a cannonball. Handy for sieges.
An oldie but a goodie: jury-rig an arrow or trap so that when the arrow collides with a hard surface or the trap is triggered, it forces a portable hole into a bag of holding.
"If a portable hole is placed within a bag of holding, it opens a gate to the Astral Plane: the hole, the bag, and any creatures within a 10-foot radius are drawn there, destroying the portable hole and bag of holding in the process."
My party put a goblin in there to question him later, forgetting that there's limited air inside. They pulled him out later after killing a bunch of guards to ask him about his boss, only to discover that the goblin had suffocated. Realizing they'd ruined their only source of info, they decided to leave the goblin surrounded by the guard corpses to make it look like a lone goblin had managed to kill 6 guards. We like to imagine the next person to find them was incredibly confused.
Me: *sees the video's thumbnail*
My brain: I SMITE THE EVIL WITH MY BACKPACK
I had an idea for a setting based on a COAT of holding.
Trench: The Adventuring Village.
Long ago, a master tailor was struck with a powerful wanderlust. However, he was loathe to leave the comforts of his own home behind.
So he crafted a great enchanted coat using the same magics as a bag of holding.
When the coat was closed up, every opening and pocket would lead into a pocket plane. Piece by piece he moved his whole home into the coat and set out on his journey.
Over time he gathered a party and they too would rest in his coat, each taking turns wearing it while the others rested. As time went on their party grew in number, each setting up homes withing the coat.
By now the wearer of the coat carried a small army with them wherever they went.
They discovered that each opening could have a different person's limbs come out, allowing them to mix and match abilities while only taken up the space of one man.
Years passed and the tailor retired to the village within the folds of his coat, content to watch the adventures of younger men.
Then your party stumble across this mythical "Adventuring Village."
Forwarding this to my GM
Brilliant
oh this is *good*. i'm going to have to figure out a coat of holding
I am stealing this its too good.
Bag of holding a house
I love the HH and BoH combo, with the sorting capability.
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My cat says hi to your dog
we made a bag of blending (a bag of holding except what ever is in there gets blended to 1 cm size peaces), if we wanted free food we wold just turn the [MONSTER] into tofu.
> be an battlesmith artificer
> about to fight a tarrasque
> send my humanoid steel defender out with two bags of holding
> order steel defender to put one bag inside the other
> it and the tarrasque gets sucked into the astral plane
> hope the Gith and Mind Flayers have fun dealing with that shit
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we refer to the early days 20 years ago in early 3.0 as "the fast and loose days" all sorts of shit flew then that we would never allow to happen now. we LOVED BoH then we kept a great white in one(filled it with water, shark cant suffocate eats anyone we didn't like) I had a Gargoyle assassin that used one for the same purpose. but the great grand daddy of them all came from an early game(before I even joined) when a green DM (we swapped out almost daily back then) who had just played majora's mask dropped the moon on the party. out of options they just stood under the moon and opened the largest BoH they had.. DM allows it with the caviat they can NEVER open that bag again. fast forward over the course of 20 years and that bag has changed hands dozens of times, crossed dimentions and is one of a handful of items that now exist in every world regardless of DM, Game, or system from shadowrun to Robotech to World of Darkness there is a bag, somewhere, that, if opened will end all life on the planet.
I feel like most of the stories I hear are from this era, where people could get away with wonderful shenanigans that always just get shut down by RAW these days. It's like you have to play a game of ace attorney just to get to use something in a *slightly* unconventional way. ...Hell that happens even with ordinary shit like damage too. I hate it. It's why I gave up on DnD. I just listen to people's stories for entertainment knowing I'll never get to do anything like that myself unless I'm foreverDM (and most of my friends aren't creative enough to do stuff like that anyway...)
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I thought bag of holdings were a bit too common so I flavored it up in my campaign by making it a mimic of holding, it’s a chest mimic that follows them around and gobbles anything they want up.
I feel like a forgotten bag of holding, filled with all the stress, anxiety, depression, and all the other emotions. Somehow I need to be able to function, but mentally/emotionally I'm empty and exhausted
The best use of a bag of holding that I've seen is when I ran a one-shot. The bard chose a bag of holding as his magic item and an organ as his instrument. Guess where he stored his organ.
I also let him use it to intimidate enemies by pulling out this giant organ from a simple-looking bag, so that was fun.
In my current campaign (children of Tyranny) my GM allowed my wizard, Tobias, who is a real book nerd, to have a bag of holding "book bag". I created a D100 book list with a wide assortment of books, ranging from the Necrotelicomnicon to Dopplegangers for dummies. Whenever there is an important skill check I reach into the bag and see what the bag provides. Sometimes the book is helpful, giving advantage or even an automatic pass if it is appropriate, but, more often than not, when asked for assistance on local history or how to disarm a trap, I end up informing the rest of the party on the fine art of Bee keeping or how to charm their own cheese. Absolutely refusing to accept that my book of choice could ever be incorrect.
In one of my campaigns people were complaining about having a base, so I said, you get a special bag of holding that acts as a base. It has a couch and stuff, it’s just a house basically, 20by20 main room, walls, and a few other rooms. No kitchen or bathroom of course. They all share this bag, and I’m probably not giving any other bags of holding
Okey. coolest use i have seen here
I stuffed a Monk in a bag: My party where sneaking in the Mayor's house, investigating the disappearing people. When we got on the second floor, we encountered a level 5 npc monk who was hired to patrol the house. The battle was going badly, then my druid had an idea. He took his bag of holding, and successfully made an contested strength check against the monk, and stuffed the monk in the bag. Became the inside joke of the month.
My gf was running a cursed island campaign. We activated the curse on the island after the rogue took some gold from a room that 4 nation's piled riches into as a treaty. I was a monk and made it back to the ship the fastest, jumping over tree roots that were suddenly trying to trip us and goblins in the woods. When we all arrived with our treasure on the boat and started to try and set out, we were attacked by ~12 sirens attacking the ship. I roll first for initiative. Roll for reflex and acrobatics. Nat 20, 24. Get respect from party. I jump into the water nearest the most sirens and open my bag of holding under the water and trap 6 sirens in the bag. Turns out we had a curse that drained our life force in about 2 weeks and the people that sent us there refused to remove the curse until we did another quest for them. After we eventually removed the curse, I dumped the sirens in the fountain in the middle of the town, left and never looked back.
Having two of your players as warforged can come in pretty handy when you want to appear alone, but actually have two barbarians in your bag.
I converted my character's bag of holding into a mobile lair for a dragon that we were raising.
I love using bags of holding as one use super weapon, have the barb jump onto the enemy, but the bag over the enemy’s head, then cutting it open. The enemy’s head is severed and sent to the astral plane
What if someone secretly used a bag of holding as a toilet then someone decided to steal it expecting weapons or something
I had several good uses for a bag of holding over the years. My rogue would use it like the one person in the video mentioned, to look like he had lost a limb. He would keep all his wands and several rings in there, so he could grab them and use them on himself at need. The GM would give him a +5 circumstance bonus to disguise when he "removed limbs" like that. He would, also, use it as an assassination tool, and put it around a target's head and cinch it tight around their throat. They were then completely blind and deaf. Making them easy to kill, or just grapple them and wait for them to suffocate.
I had a mage use one to teach the group Rogue a lesson too. The player was one of those people who thought it was funny to just constantly steal everything they could from the the rest of the group. And he was so specialized in it, we had almost no chance of catching him. So one night, my mage set a trap for him...literally. He emptied his bag of holding of everything except for one item. A loaded bear trap, attached to a 50 lb weight. The rogue did as he always did, and went through people's stuff at night, and when he reached into the bag, the GM ruled that since the bag is an extradimensional space, his trap sense didn't function across the opening. The GM rolled percentage to see if he set the trap off...and he did. Trap snaps shut, does 4d6 damage, and traps his hand. He was a halfling rouge and not that strong, so the 50 weight put him into encumbered. I was going to leave it at that, but the Paladin had other thoughts. He took the fact that we had, now, proof of him stealing, searched him, and we found that he, secretly, had two bags of holding of his own, secreted in his cloak. The Paladin took him to the nearest city, and spent two days writing up charges for every single item he took, plus the money. In total, he brought about 70+ counts of theft against him. He wasn't killed, but the player had to make a new character. And his old one made an appearance down the road as a nemesis.
Use one for an easy, but stunning disappearing act. Just need to trust your "assistant" to actually let you out of the bag every time.
Sack of seiving. Cannonbag. Homely shell. Bag of holes(bigger but drops things). Full body hat. Filing folder. Shopping bag(throw a coin in and it gives you something random). Eco-hazardous bag of holding(animals keep getting themselves tangled in it while you are asleap).
I managed to make a magical nuke with a bag of holding, some water, uranium, and a wall of force
We once used the bag of holding to suffocate level 15 arch Mage in it 😂
I once filled it with a fire bottle and a butt ton of oil, killed both me and the BBEG in one round.
Looong ago, we were given what was basically a rod of shrinking. Held the tip to something, and it would shrink. Other end, it would grow. We ended up coming across multiple destroyed and abandoned towns. We took weeks to shove entire towns into the bag of holding. For the BBEG we ended up rigging alchemist's fire to the outside, and had our rogue sneak it into his castle. Lit the fuse and ran like hell. Suddenly, multiple towns tried to occupy the basement of a castle, and ended up dealing enough crushing damage to kill him when the bag popped.
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I once used my bag of holding to kill a mushroom man. My party members didn't want me to do so though, so I had to let him out for some air
Used it to house the warlock's child servant, Giles. We gave him a breathing tube so he wouldn't suffocate. Instead, he just got possessed by a dark spirit living in the dark magic book which was also in the bag.
My Undead Tabaxi Artificer has been using a bag of holding as both a method of transporting far more then her bones could carry but also as a make-shift stomach.
Freaked out our rogue when she took apart and ''ate'' a mechanical dragon, piece by piece, while the rest of the party was sleeping then just grinned at him from under her hood with prestidigitation.
It wasn't until several sessions later the party found out their morally questionable but trust worthy supporting tinkerer was actually a rune encrusted skeleton in a body suit.
When I was a player, (half elf, sorcerer, 2 draconic bloodlines) I loved the bag of holding. As I was Chaotic Neutral I loved Explosives. I spent around 1,000,000,000 platinum coins on explosives throughout the entire campaign. They all went into my bag of holding and were never used until one encounter.
DM- "you all see an army appear from your flying battle ship" (yes that was an item we purchased)
Me- "how many are there?"
DM- "a lot"
Me- "I fly right over the center and prepare my teleport on the ship"
I start getting weird looks from everyone. Then I say,
"I take out my bag of holding, light it on fire, and teleport away."
Dead Silence.
Then my party members start cracking the $h!t up. The bombs I collected in that one bag were equal to 5 trillion megatuns. That is way more than a nuke. The DM walked out after that because I derailed the entire campain.
Wow... despite the fact that damaging bag literally deletes everything in it to the Astral plane?
@@zetram01 I lit the inside and my DM allowed it. He did not read the book fully, more like skimmed it.
Haven't had a chance to use it, but if I'm ever falling from a deadly height, I plan to invert my bag, then climb in. If I'm careful with how I use it, I might be able to use the sudden outpour of items to propel me in a more desirable direction, and being inside should protect me from the fall damage.
That would be awesome!
@@burritodoggo122 Last ditch gambit for survival, lol.
I think they just instantly appear around the bag
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Well, either way. The important bit is getting inside the bag.
You would have to get out within 10 minutes
Had a vampire put his coffin in the bag of holding. Whenever he needed to go back to it he'd just pull it out and sleep. We would put it back in the bag of holding and continue on the quest.
I can only imagine the first guy to put a bag of holding into another bag of holding, thinking he was smart to save space yet he gets sucked into a black hole. lol
We where getting attacked and we all jumped into the bag for 3 minutes
I saw in a DND stream that the bbeg made a huge boh and used it as a mini astral pocket dementional base...that only the bbge and the party who didn't know that that we're secretly working for her..... could actually use between adventures to rest recover and tinker with thare weaponry gear and other such things.....it was a genius move...btw.
My friend used one to catch an owl bear that we were fighting
> Be a Planeshifted Vampire Artificer
> fill the Bag of holding with 1,490 pounds of horseshit and 10 vials of Alchemist's Fire
> Use Vampiric Exultation to fly high enough into the air to stay out of weapon fire (let’s say around 80 ft).
> get the rest of the party out of the way by using sending stones
> open the bag of holding upside down
> falling objects in D&D do 1d6 damage per 200lbs per 10 feet they fall.
> there is approximately 1,500 pound in the bag (the horseshit and vials)
> 1,500lbs / 200lbs = 7.5
> 80ft / 10ft = 8
> 7.5 x 8 = 60
> 60 x 1d6 = 60d6
> 60d6 damage of flaming horseshit just fell on the heads of multiple enemies and has likely covered all of them. And I’m not even counting the fire damage from the Alchemist's Fire yet.
> find anything left alive and rain their blood
> doesn’t matter that they’re covered in shit,
> I’m literally an undead abomination from the jungle. Cleanliness isn’t exactly my forte
> raise them as Null minions permanently loyal to me
> rinse and repeat
> I am the vampire lord of the endless, fiery shit
> "The Flaming Shitpire" if you would
> Papa Nurgle would be proud
Y'know, I never expected the D&D-reading channel that featured Pepe the Frog and text-to-speech so prominently in the earlier videos to wind up being the one that ends each video with a wholesome 1-2 minute speech.
Well neither did MrRipper himself, but when I added one positive message in WAYYY back when I first started - he just kinda let me roll with it.
So I try to be positive in every little video now. It's my life. Everything I upload on my own channel is as wholesome or honest as I can get it too.. I just want to give back to the world that gave me the best person ever - my partner.
If I can make someone else happy or solve a little tiff here and there, fuck it, everyone wins.
@@BrianVaughnVA Well awesome, regardless. It's a welcome addition. Thanks for thinking to do it. :)
@@SamWeltzin And thank the holy happening clouds above that you enjoy listening in mate.
All the love to you and I'm glad to help others how I can.
@@BrianVaughnVA All the love to you too. :)
My friends in one group have a bag of holding for mass transport of the... party. Only one person in the party can teleport and to make things easier, they all just climb into the bag, have the one person teleport to their location and then they get out. Very efficient
A new a player once who played an Elf Monk. The Monk would grapple the rest of the party and shove them into a bag of holding. And she would allow bring them out if there was an obstacle she couldn’t overcome: traps and bring out the Rogue, a Fight and bring out the Paladin, etc. The other players went along with it for awhile until the Monk grappled them into the bag of holding whenever treasure was allocated
"metamice" reminds me of a cutesy yet violent comic i read called "i hate fairyland", where someone's magical hat of holding got infested with monsters called "Lynts".
Not me but I read a story about DM who used a giant sapient bag of holding as a homebrew monster. That is just awesome. Even cooler is that the party upon realizing it is basically a bag of holding killed with the old portable hole trick and were sent into a pocket dimension.
As the artificer of the group, i can safely say ive stolen countless items with a bag of holding, including an entire dungeon
Used 2 bags of holding to carry a balista ..... when encounters were coming I'd assemble the balista in a one or two turns and blast enemies in to oblivion from a mile away.
And for emergencies, mount both bags on the tip of the bolt for a super oblivion missile
Level 2 artificer taking bag of holding infusion twice and thus creating a black hole bomb on every long rest.
Bag of holding filled to the metaphorical brim with marbles from the dust of dryness. While I hold the bag open aimed at the bbeg while fighting on a mountain, my part member cast shatter... we called that the fire hose of death.
I know this is an easy problem you can just homebrew, but the bag of holding is around the size of a burlap sack, and not a tiny pouch on your belt, so some of these situations might not work as well with this in mind, but homebrew's great
Cadaver transport. Bricks. A cranial device that will put a dozen knives into the targets head. Potions. A poster. And several bars worth of alcohol.
80 Halflings in 2 bags of holding, druid flies into the city and dumps the halfling army
> Build device to armour the bag against potential tears and is spring-loaded to pop it inside-out after a set amount of time
> Load passengers into a bag of holding
> Load bag of holding into a trebuchet
> Set timer on bag based on expected flight duration plus a minute or so
> Launch bag towards desired destination
> Instant high-speed public transportation method
Also works for getting past castle walls and breaking sieges.
Couple of notes: doing the math bags of holding only holds about 50 gallons of water before it gets to heavy and bursts. That's a barrel that can barely fit a human. However, with the spell 'shape water' (cantrip) you can pull out a variety of frozen weapons, pictures, toys, whatever simple shapes you can imagine. Is an ice sword as strong as a steel sword. No. Can you smuggle a variety of weapons to secure places, sure thing. Trying to keep enemies from chasing you. Freeze the locks and hinges on the door behind you. Need a frozen slide to get down a high spot safely. With 50 gallons of water and shape water spell your options are unlimited.
To hold burlap sacks containing 9 vials of acid each in order to cast maximum damage lvl2 catapult spells. We're talkin' 4d8+18d6 as a second lvl spell slot here.
In a campaign I played several years ago, a player stretched a bag of holding over an ogre's head, carried it across the room, summoned the ogre's head out of it, and shotputted it at it's own body
One of the parties i DMed for turned theirs into a mobile cannon bunker. Here's how....So, i have this derelict ship drift into the harbor. They bord it. Well searching the ship they come to the gun deck. They go, "hey we should take some of these in case we come across a castle with a bad guy in it later." I thought "I'm gonna need to remember to armor up those castles and lock the treasury later." My players took IRL time to calculate the weight of everything needed to operate a cannon, keep it clean, and fire it. As well as ammunition. Then put the max amount of that that the bag of holding could could hold. I was impressed with the math and thought their teachers in school clearly made math classes fun. they got inspiration points for that....used it on a lich's log cabin later. They didn't know she was a lich (just evil); got the phylactery too....big smoking crater!
9:05 that's the most brilliant idea ever!
I haven't got to use a bag of holding yet, but the most creative uses of a bag of holding are as follows: a PC threw himself 3 miles into the air, after attempting to save himself with wild magic, one surge put him one mile higher than before (we were using a d10k table), he climbed into the bag to try to avoid fall damage. It didn't work, and after dieing one of his surges brought him back to life.
A more practical use for a bag of holding is from another PC, who put an OWLBEAR IN ONE, turning it into a bag that hoots on occasion. It doesn't need to worry about suffocating, and because it levels, it has around 250 health. Having fought this character and his hooting BAG, in a tournament whose theme was impossible foes, I can firsthand confirm the terror that Mr. Turtle brings to a fight
I had a bag of holding but eventually sold it to get materials for a shop. I didn't tell the buyer that half an army of undead were being held inside it.
I played an artificer and I made a bag of holding that I gave to the rogue. That bag helped us on so many different occasions. When we were level two, we almost had a TPK. Everyone was down but the rogue, so the rogue managed with some good rolls to get everyone in the bag and escape without the last enemy, who was the boss, noticing. Another occasion we had to break a guy out of jail. The rogue went in invisible and got the dude out of his cell by putting the bag through the bars and having the guy climb in. Once when we were stuck on an island with a pirate ship coming towards us, so we all got in the bag except for the triton who then swam us to safety without being noticed by the pirates. We have also used the bag so we could use dimension door with the whole party. These things were done keeping in mind that if someone is in the bag you need to get them out as quickly as you can.
I'm playing as an alchemist artificer and made the many handed pouch as 1 of my infusions. The many handed pouch is like a bag of holding but can't hold as much but is shared amongst the party as a way to share potions without having to use a turn giving it to them. In our last session we found a portable hole. We were fighting an abolith we found in an Alchemy lab. Our wizard decided to do a self sacrificing move by putting the portable hole in the many handed pouch. I secretly ask the DM if, since we all shared the pouch, will we also be sucked into the astral plane. At first our DM said no thought about it and thought it was a hilarious idea and decided to go with it. So what should have been an emotional moment for the wizard turned into "Wacky Misadventures in the Astral Plane"
We were facing off against a vampire we trapped it along with our party cleric in a sphere of force. He turned it inside out unleashing a fully filled bag holding holy water! Thankfully he had a ring of water breathing.
I used to carry the parties goliath in the bag when we did stealth missions or planting an ambush no one would expect a goliath barbarian who is angry to be in a bag
I have hundreds of good stories on this (one of if not my all time top fave item) however one i like is to play a race with breathing immunity, or someone with a breathing reed, and casting high level aoe/group effect concentration spells, then letting the dodge tank keep me safe while im carried along to better take care of business, if done right i could even still cast a few things to supplement the con spells by spying through the hole or via a familiar
Used a holding pocket dimension to kill a Haidra once by accident. It was a home brew system, but the DM did not like that I took down a minor boss with little effort on everyone else's part.
Would using it to separate atoms work? I mean imagine just using a massive nuclear explosion in the middle of whatever you want....
My party was on a rescue mission to save one of the character's brother from my campain's version of pandemonium. When they realised they might lose the battle against a (chaos) kraken. So, my party crammed all but 2 of them into the 5 bags of holding they had and then dimension doored back through the portal (which I had mentioned was 500 ish ft away). Needless to say I was very proud.
Fill it up with a toxic gas, seal an entire building up, then release it into the building along with your opponents with the gas, and watch as your opponents die. Pretty CE but it worked
my parties rogue put a bag of holding into a bag of holding ripping a whole in space-time and transported us to a sub dimension, then tried to steal a magic scroll from a fox person and got us killed by a meteor storm scroll instead
So this is one of my first games, and the party finds human sacrifices in cages. To help them escape, the bard puts them all in her bag of holding. Our transportation was someone teleporting us to and from our destinations, so all of the human sacrifices got teleported with us
I’m not sure this is a use of a bag of holding, but some crazy shenanigans happened with one once. I was the DM and our fighter was out climbing a cliff in his downtime when 2 harpies attacked him. He fell off the cliff but managed to grapple one of the harpies as he fell and pulled her and himself inside of his bag of holding bro avoid the fall damage. He then ended up soloing the harpy inside the bag while the monk, who had just got done dealing with some sharks that attacked him while he was meditating under a waterfall chased down the other harpy who was now carrying the bag off to who knows where. They both managed to take their harpies down in the end. Good times.
The party's chef kept his ingredients and utensils in his bag of holding. It was mostly unnecessary as it was maybe 7% of the ingredients were vegetables, meats, etc. The other 93% was just cheese. I'm quite surprised our GM didn't have us roll constipation checks from all of it. Cheese was a default in all of our party's meals, although my sorcerer got non-cheese variants of the dishes in exchange for using Prestidigitation to clean the dishes before and after cooking.
We used it as a method of transport. Utilizing my rogue/warlock who was shrunk and had a winter wolf mount or our tabaxi ranger would take the bag with our team in it and take off full speed then released them.
My lady got my a canvas backpack with buckles and straps with leather ties and jokingly called it my bag of holding, we went out to lunch today and on the roadtrip down she said she was thirsty, sonic reach on the bag of holding and pull out an oce cold soda, she remarks "well what are you gonna a drink, to which I pull out another can of soda, "what if we get thirsty later with lunch?" I dump out the bag in the back seat to reveal 2 more sodas and 3 water bottles, best use of the bag so far
For me the best use I have had out of the bag of holding was only a few sessions ago, I'm playing a albino goblin named kerbal. One of my monk skills allows me to walk through walls. Our party was trapped in a tiny room with upto 50 spiders trapping us. So I had the party climb into my bag and the walked through the walls and out of the cave we was trapped in. A weak goblin saved the entire party all alone
The funniest thing I used for a bag of holding was I gave a character a magical item called a diddly-sqwat. It had to be inside a bag of holding. It did diddly-sqwat and made the bag of holding useless.
Another time, I used it to hide character from the enemy. I had to roll my two death saves and both nat 20's so I lived through the shaking and the lack of air before climbing out of it, then dying in battle the next day. And losing my bag of holding anyway.
Oh god... I have one. This was one of the most memorable moments from one of the most memorable campaigns I have EVER run.
As a reward for saving a TPW i gave the guy playing an Insane vegan crossfitting druid (He referred to his alignment as Lawful gains... yeah... ), a shot at a magical item.
He rolled high on the table so I gave him a bag of holding.
He used the bag of holding to make a perfect environment for creating vegan cheeses. These cheeses required very low oxygen and perfect humidity to produce. It also reeked worse than black dragons breath..
After he perfected his "swamp thunder camumembere" (he ALWAYS used the full name btw) cheese he sold the recipe to a cheese maker and cleared out the bag...
Now this is were it gets good. He basically subsisted on this horrible cheese eating it with every meal. The rest of the party passed because it gave anyone failing a con save weapons grade horror farts.
Every rest he would eat his cheese then intentionally forgo his Con save. but wouldn't tell me why... (I honestly thought he was just RPing)
But then the group is facing a Demonicly powered arch mage with legendary resistance. The Party managed to stealth in so I gave them a prep round. The druid says I want to try and drop the Bag of holding on his head.
Me the DM: "...OK... you know the bag has a 10 minute air supply?"
Loony hipster Druid: "He needs to pass a dex check to pull it off again right?"
ME: "yes...?"
Druid: *Rolls High for the bag dunk*
Me: "He now has a bag of holding on his head..."
Druid (Literally giggling like a 7 year old girl): *Hands me a sheet*
Me (Bewildered): "what are all these dates?"
Druid (proud asf): "Thats my fart ledger! For all our rests we've had. Its every time I used the bag as a bathroom after I ate my Swamp Thunder Camumbere.
Me (silently realizing what has just been handed to me is a warcrime): Oh... ooooh... my... god...
It took 35 minutes for the table to stop laughing long enough for the game to continue.
Which was a good thing: since I had NO Idea how to roll damage for a literal OCEAN of the foulest smelling, vegan shotgun corn, bowel drainage in history (I decided on drowning and poison btw).
And so began a comedy of errors such as the dice have NEVER shown me the likes of before or since.
The poor (evil) Archmage had gone from mid speech... to drowning in the runoff from an outhouse, behind a curry factory... So I decided he needed to roll both Con and then Dex, with disadvantage, to remove the bag. Failed. Failed repeatedly.
Next he tried to cast water breathing on himself but also failed because he couldn't cast it thru the bag on his head.
The "Battle" ended with him finally getting the bag off his head. At 7 hp left. This allowed all the poo to escape the bag, causing the Villian to slip and crack his head on the marble stairs he was standing on.
He is now unconsious and being carried away by the poonami (TM).
I then rolled for the army of his henchman to react to this flustercluck? Yeah flustercluck.
I roll a con save for all of them since there are 14.
NAT F&*%ing 1!!!
Severity Die? 97%!!!!!!!
I now have 14 wizards vomiting so hard from the stench; that they cant get away from the oncoming wall of sewage.
The entire cabal is swept out of the wizard tower on a god damned river of Hipster cheese shits. All of them.
ALL OF THEM!
I had to lose 5 pages worth of upcoming campaign notes. All to a druid named Chadian Swampthunder.
Man... what a campaign that was.
We had a party member named BOB the Minotaur , he always spelled his name backwards but the point is....every night he went to sleep we would put his arms and legs into bags of holding and tie them on. He would wake up with no legs and arms, we would tell him we cut the limbs off for breakfast, we would also have meat cooking beef! The cleric would pretend to grow the limbs back, it was about 10 game sessions of him being pissed off before we let him know what was Actually going on. He now tries to pull pranks on us both in and out of game, the animosity is written into every new character of his, and he is always and forever getting us back.
I filled my bag of holding with ball bearings and caltrops and turned it inside out when at the top of a castles parapet to drop it on the invaders using a battering ram
One of my evil characters used them for body disposal. If you're in eberron they're plentiful and you can just toss them when they're full
Surprised that the arrowhead of total annihilation wasn't brought up.
Arrowhead with a small tube at the tip that contains a portable hole, and the backside of the arrowhead is a cage that holds open a bag of holding.
When the arrow is launched and hits a hard surface, a small retaining glass or wood rod is broken by the tube flying back towards the bag of holding.
Once the portable hole gets into the bag of holding, it causes a hole in the plane to get ripped open.
Within 20 feet takes lots of damage, and within 10 feet gets sucked through the hole into the astral plane.