Players are happy because their characters can bring more equipment and salavage more treasure. This is of course extremely useful for a bunch of semi-medieval adventurers in a fantasy world. In short: the Bag of Holding lets player characters carry much more items than they would normally be able to. What purpose does the Bag of Holding serve? The modern version of the Bag of Holding (D&D 5th edition) is more or less identical to the B/X one, but carries “only” 500 pounds of weight. Weight: Up to 10,000 coins of weight can be placed in the bag.
Size: Objects of up to 10’×5’×3’ can fit inside the bag. ( source: Old-School Essentials System Reference Document): Bag of HoldingĪ normal-looking, small sack that can magically contain large objects and weights.
10 coins were equal to one pound, so this Bag of Holding can fit items with a combined weight of 1000 pounds. Note that in those older editions weight was defined in coins. It is used to store treasure and equipment that would otherwise be too cumbersome for the player characters to carry.īelow is how the Bag of Holding is described in D&D Basic/Expert from 1981. It is basically an enchanted bag with an interior considerably larger than it’s outer dimensions. The Bag of Holding is a magic item that exists in most (all?) editions of D&D, as well as most clones (like Pathfinder and OSR games). Please excuse the provocative title, but I would like to talk a little about why I think the Bag of Holding is an item that’s better left out of your Dungeons & Dragons campaign.