Besides treasure, what's in your Bag of Holding?

[lalallaalal]

I'm curious if anyone out there fills their BoH with mundane, situational items, and what exactly they put in there. Im thinking of things that don't fit in your Handy Haversack due to size or your HH being full, like a portable ram.

I'm curious because I'm creating a character with both a Handy Haversack and a BoH who is a bit of a collector as well as obsessed with having the right tool for the job. I want to see if the community puts anything in their bag that I haven't thought of or would just be cool and fun to have out in the field.

So, what do you have in your Bag of Holding?

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Bodies, mostly. ;-)

[Darigaaz the Igniter]

soap, grooming kit, fishhook, 50ft of twine, chronicler's kit, mapmaker's kit, bedroll, shovel, necklace of fireballs, grappling arrow, flint and steel, and the wyrmling dragon keeps trying to get me to put 4000cp in the main portion to serve as its portable hoard

[andreww]

A suitably sized tent.
Portable Bath.
Enough water for said bath unless I am a Cleric/Oracle with create water.
Changes of clothing
Lots and lots of rope
Some spare weapons and armour just in case
Spare spell component pouches
Various class outfits for disguising as necessary

[zylphryx]

a portable hol<insert sound of reality tearing here>

[zylphryx]

Actually, for BoH, I usually just use them for treasure hauling, simply for the fact that retrieval is not easy (such as a move action with a handy haversack), so it would not be a good location for items you may need in short order.

That being said, I did have a fighter that kept ceremonial armor in a BoH (he would pull it out every week or so to polish up any areas that got scuffed by the other things in there). And I did have a wizard that would store any spell books he found in his BoH until he had a chance to sit down and transcribe spells to his own books.

I also had a rogue that, as a last resort, would hop into his ratty looking BoH with a bottle of air if he needed a place to hide really quick or needed to be smuggled in someplace.

[Artanthos]

My female gnome masseuse.

[Spook205]

I've seen bags filled with dirt.

Spoons, Forks, an entire dining room set.

In one case, someone opened the thing underwater and ended up with a bag filled with a whole hell of a lot of salt water and fish (the dubbed 'portable fishing hole').

Barrels. A cart.

Several hundred pounds of lumber.

Wooden statues of ducks.

[Thymus Vulgaris]

Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:

Bodies, mostly. ;-)

I did, in fact, at one point have 1/3 of a dead party member in a bag of holding...

But aside from that, I mostly use it for loot and stuff that I don't mind having to spend a standard action to get out, like other people. (Or rather, it's a move and a standard action to get anything out of my bag of holding, because I store it in my handy haversack).

[lalallaalal]

I really like the portable fishing hole! That is just genius.

I was thinking about carrying around quite a few folding chairs, foot rests, and a keg for when we encounter travelers on the road. Offer to start a fire, have everyone kick up their feet, enjoy a few brewskies. This is how I plan to get my new party members to like me.

Does food spoil in a BoH? I was thinking of storing some decent food in there so I don't have to rely on rations or hunting/fishing as much.

[Natrim]

A library. Had a wizard once who carried a full library, shelves and all, of every book (regardless of whether or not it was magical) that he came across in his BoH.

Had a fellow pc once who was heavily into necromancy who carried a type IV just for corpses, and another type IV for animated corpses... Vampire strength bonus and a belt came in handy for him.

A ballista. Had a Warforged arcane trickster who invested in skills for siege weapons, and then kept a ballista readied (with blankets tied around the spearheads). He ran into rust monsters, dropped the bag and dived into the bag and wheeled the ballista to the front. Refused to leave the bag until the rest of the party dealt with the beasties.

[qutoes]

You can use a Bag of Devouring as a porta potty !

[Devo]

I had my group find the saddlebag of holding that once belonged to a paladin. It had (among other things):
A chest full of assorted wine bottles
A bearskin rug
firewood
tindertwigs
Books of poetry
A small pavillion / tent
Collapsable cots
Camp chairs
A full set of silverware
A full dining set
Planks and braces that could be assembled into a dinner table
A table cloth
An assortment of perfumes and colognes
A full set of silver goblets
2 scrolls of Restoration

[danielc]

Wow, some cool stuff in those bags. I always thought you could only put items in the bag that would fit into the opening of the bag. In any case, I like some of the ideas here.

[Dieben]

Classical answer:
"Here, take a look for yourself."

As you open the bag, the party rogue leaps out and stabs you in the throat.

[Gilfalas]

My handy haversack only holds things I will need quickly in combat. The bag of holding has the tents, clothes, food, traveling magic creation kit, etc.

I do have one type 4 bag that is stocked with large amounts of dried food and water along with 30 sets of clothing, 30 small bags of silver, 30 backpacks with 10 days of food and water. The clothing is cold weather capable and is utilitarion with 10 sets small and 20 sets in medium.

The clothes and such are for all the refugee's and victims our party seems to always save who are usually in rags and with no food or money.

[Calybos1]

Rope, rope, and more rope. It's an arms race with one of our GMs to see if he can keep upgrading the cliffs and canyons faster than we can buy rope to cover the span.

"It looks to be about 450 feet straight up."
"We got this."
"Really? Damn! Err, I mean... 500 feet, yeah it was 500."

[Mathius]

As GM I have ruled that only things can fit through 30 inch hoop can go into a bag of holding and that usually means that medium sized creatures need an escape artist check to get in and out quickly.

My party likes to get into the bag save for the druid that wildshapes into an earth elemantal to infiltrate right past many an encounter. Life bubble helps with this.

Do not forget chainmail lining against stabby things.

[Lathiira]

Water and dead kobolds are our perennial favorites.

[Mathius]

Now for the really bizarre stuff we get portable holes. In those I have constructed a self erecting collapsible tower that rose to a height of 30 feet. The self erecting came form an animated crank.

I also like to carry a row boat in them. 500 feet or rope is nothing, we went for 10k at one point. Fill many tanks at max size for reduce object and reduce them. Have so many they fill the unload and say command word for instant flood or lake. A horrible grinding trap that grinds anything in the hole, just add foes. For a quick way to do this put a blade barrier in the hole, add target, pick up hole. The crazy thing is that you can have an unseen servant pick up and deploy the hole.

[Artanthos]

20 lbs of bacon.

Or would that be classified as treasure?

[Selgard]

Depends on if you bought it, founds it, or took it from the hog yourself.

:)

As to the OP.. I don't think I've owned a BoH since Pathfinder came out came out. There hasn't really been a grand need for that much extra space, aside from the HH, and if there was I think the group would likely just spring for a PH and never worry about a loot/weight restriction again.

-S