I once had a player that wanted a Decanter of Endless Water just to waterboard people π³
I think the screams would be muffled but still audible. Until the bag is closed, the extradimensional space inside is connected to the outside world. However, since sound can only escape from the opening and not the sides of the bag, I would rule that it is much quieter, granting disadvantage on checks to hear the scream.
You could just kill the guard by leaving them in the bag
I would immediately shift your alignment to chaotic evil for it because you're literally making them suffocate to death over a period of about ten minutes, but it's still RAW.
If it "holds" the screams as if it was an item, would you be able to pull a scream out of the bag at will? Does than then mean that you can use the bag to prepare verbal components of spells?
Anything you can do, the DM can do, too. Treat things like this like war crimes or your next TPK will be a goblin horde taking out the party one by one with sneak attacks and bags of holding.
It would silence as many screams as hands you are loosing pulling items from it. Which is zero.
I would say yes, it's a poket dimension with no air so the sound would have no medium to flow through. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk
Seriously, super fun info for later!
The Dungeons and Daddies guys took out a CR26 Vampire Lord at Level 2 with this one neat trick...
When you put his head in the bag you are also putting the air around his head in the bag so any "sound doesn't travel in a vacuum" arguments will be nonsense.
I imagine it would be just as loud as if someone poked their head out of a porthole of a ship and yelled outside. Someone inside the room of the ship could still hear it even though the victims head is poking through the porthole.
Polymorph them into a caterpillar and toss them into the bag. Easy and silent murder.
Couldn't you just close the draw string and decapitate the target?
EDIT: Or make the drawstring out of piano wire to ensure the result.
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