Accessing bags takes how long?

[Waylayer]

What type of action is it to take an item out of an easily accessible bag, i.e. take a potion out of a belt pouch?

Move action? Swift action?

I've looked at the belt pouch description, and at the movement section, but haven't been able to find it.

[Quentin Coldwater]

Bandoliers specifically call out a move action to draw out something small, but I think that extends to anything you'd want to have readily available in combat. Scrolls and wands need to be move-action-equivalent to be effective. I'd say potions would fit in a bandolier and anything else would be pretty much in a belt pouch or somewhere readily available. Things you wouldn't normally use in combat (rope, your mess kit) are usually full-round actions that provoke, as you really have to dig around in your backpack.

[dragonhunterq]

retrieving a stored item is a move action that provokes - last entry on the move action list

[Sebastian Hirsch]

dragonhunterq wrote:

retrieving a stored item is a move action that provokes - last entry on the move action list

Correct, which is why so many players buy a handy haversack.

[BigNorseWolf]

Quentin Coldwater wrote:

Bandoliers specifically call out a move action to draw out something small, but I think that extends to anything you'd want to have readily available in combat. Scrolls and wands need to be move-action-equivalent to be effective. I'd say potions would fit in a bandolier and anything else would be pretty much in a belt pouch or somewhere readily available. Things you wouldn't normally use in combat (rope, your mess kit) are usually full-round actions that provoke, as you really have to dig around in your backpack.

The need for Rope comes up often enough in a hurry that i would have it out on the side of the backpack Like so

[BigNorseWolf]

Wands are usually picked up through spring loaded wrist sheaths.

Those with +1 bab or higher can draw a wand or other weaponlike object the same way they can a weapon.

Potions should be labled, in your upper left pocket (adventurer's getouts specifically have pockets) move action with an aoo to draw.

Regular backpack is a move action with an aoo

handy haversack is move action with no aoo

A bag of holding that is holding more than a regular bag is a full round action.

[Gisher]

Sebastian Hirsch wrote:

dragonhunterq wrote:

retrieving a stored item is a move action that provokes - last entry on the move action list

Correct, which is why so many players buy a handy haversack.

I buy them purely as fashion statements.