Mar 29
Considering that D&D characters are so reliant on their magical gear, it’s always amusing to run a scenario that involves the PCs trying to sneak somewhere where they have to disguise themselves as something other than adventurers. It usually comes down to everyone giving their armor, weapon and other gear to the one PC that took a bag of holding as their treasure share, rather than a more “useful” magical item.
I briefly considered the concept of playing a Kender that constantly brags about his “magic bag of infinite capacity” until the above scenario occurs, at which point it is revealed that it was actually a bag of devouring (which destroys items placed within it). The other PCs will probably want to kill the character (and/or player) shortly thereafter.
But I didn’t want to inflict such a character on a party.
I mean, a Kender? That’s just cruel.
Will a bag of devouring eat your hand if you reach in?
Well, according to http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/cursedItems.htm#bagofDevouring, it apparently can grab someone reaching into it and pull them in…scary.
Wow, that seems like a useful little tool once you know what it is. Do bags of holding have a max opening diameter? Because I would totally put it on a stick and use it as a deadly giant butterfly net (on enemies with low chance of useful loot I guess). It can also (according to the description) destroy corpses in a mostly non-respectable fashion, so it seems like a great tool for spies, doing away with bodies, evidence, and hapless guards in one concealable item.
What the heck is a “Kender”? I only know it is the Hungarian word for Cannabis/hemp, bu that doesn’t seem to make any sense in this context…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kender
I’ll slip it into the text above
Oh, thanks. So they are kind of halflings. I learnt something new again.