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Rereading, it's only in regards to worn items that the word "draw" is used, so I wouldn't allow this.

Wielding Items has a chart for this.

Great point! That may be as close as one can get to a hard answer at the moment.

The question I have is about the Quick Bomber and Quick Draw feats. I have a level 5 Alchemist Chirurgeon who was struggling with encumbrance until he bought Sleeves of Storage, and throwing bombs from them for a single action seems off to me because every other container in the game requires a heavy action economy tax to retrieve items. Sleeves circumvents some of that, because it costs more and holds less than Bag of Holding, but if it enables Quick Bomber as well as granting your familiar a hidey hole then it seems way too good—a must-buy for Alchemists with familiars who rely on bombs in combat.

The rules text for Quick Bomber is short and sweet:

You keep your bombs in easy-to-reach pouches from which you draw without thinking. You Interact to draw a bomb, then Strike with it.

The first sentence is descriptive, the second sentence is the mechanics. The relevant part is: you Interact to draw a bomb.

Sleeves of Storage’s entry says that the way to retrieve items from them is as follows:

You can add or remove an item from a sleeve with a single hand free as an Interact action.

There are two lingering questions:

1) Is “Interact to draw” functionally the same as “Interact to remove a stowed item from a container”? If yes, does that also work with holding a Bag of Holding in one hand, one free hand, and the Quick Draw/Bomber feat? Does it work with drawing a weapon off of the ground? What if the weapon is in an adjacent square, unattended?

2) Is the described action in Sleeves of Storage’s entry a unique action? (notably, it's not a magical Activation) Or can items in the Sleeves be acted on by any action, spell, etc that asks you to Interact to pick up, retrieve, or draw an item?

TL;DR - questions 1 & 2

You know, I've been thinking about it, and I think it should work. It's an Interact action to draw an item from the sleeves, and Quick Bomber says you Interact to draw a bomb. So yea, it actually should work with the Sleeves.

I'm split on whether this works RAW or not but my gut says RAI it shouldn't.

I wish "draw" had a set definition, or the Quick Draw/Bomber/Shot feats specified "a worn item" if that is what's intended.

The lack of specificity also leads to debates about whether or not you can pick a weapon up off of the ground or an adjacent table with Quick Draw, because it would also technically be an Interact action that leads to a weapon being in your hand. The word "draw" is truly being stretched to its limits there but regardless it's up for debate when it comes to TTRPGs.

IMO Sleeves of Storage should fall into the "backpack, sack, or similar container" section of Table 6-2: Changing Equipment, with the exception that Sleeves' entry says it takes only one hand to add or remove an item.

Sleeves of Storage reads as though it was intended as a Bag-of-Holding-but-for-casters item, especially because of the focus on it being a shelter for a familiar. It doesn't strike me as an item meant for martials to quickly draw a longsword or a crossbow from their sleeves and immediately attack with it--or for an Alchemist to store up to 100 bombs and throw whichever specific bomb he wants from it as a single action. That sounds a little advanced for a level 4 item.