Handy Saddlebags (Patreon)

Aura moderate conjuration; CL 9th

Slot —; Price 2,200 gp; Weight 10 lbs.

Description

A saddlebag of this sort appears to be well made, well used, and quite ordinary. It has two side pouches, each of which appears large enough to hold about half a gallon of material. In fact, each is like a bag of holding and can actually hold material of as much as 3 cubic feet in volume or 30 pounds in weight. The large central portion of the pack can contain up to 12 cubic feet or 120 pounds of material. Even when so filled, the backpack always weighs only 10 pounds.

While such storage is useful enough, the pack has an even greater power. When the wearer reaches into it for a specific item, that item is always on top. Thus, no digging around and fumbling is ever necessary to find what a haversack contains. Retrieving any specific item from the saddlebags is a move action, but it does not provoke the attacks of opportunity that retrieving a stored item usually does. Being made for four-legged use, the flaps are positioned to make for easy mouth access.

Construction Requirements

Craft Wondrous Item, secret chest; Cost 1,100 gp

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5e version:

 Handy Saddlebags

Wondrous item, rare

These saddlebags have a central pouch and two side pouches, each of which is an extradimensional space. Each side pouch can hold up to 30 pounds of material, not exceeding a volume of 3 cubic feet. The large central pouch can hold up to 12 cubic feet or 120 pounds of material. The backpack always weighs 10 pounds, regardless of its contents.

Placing an object in the saddlebag follows the normal rules for interacting with objects. Retrieving an item from the saddlebag requires you to use an action. When you reach into the saddlebag for a specific item, the item is always magically on top.

The saddlebags have a few limitations. If it is overloaded, or if a sharp object pierces it or tears it, the saddlebag ruptures and is destroyed. If the saddlebags are destroyed, its contents are lost forever, although an artifact always turns up again somewhere. If the saddlebag is turned inside out, its contents spill forth, unharmed, and the saddlebags must be put right before it can be used again. If a breathing creature is placed within the saddlebags, the creature can survive for up to 10 minutes, after which time it begins to suffocate.

Placing any of the saddlebags inside an extradimensional space created by a Bag of Holding, Portable Hole, or similar item instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The gate originates where the one item was placed inside the other. Any creature within 10 feet of the gate is sucked through it and deposited in a random location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way only and can’t be reopened.