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    The document describes a creature called the Bagman. It is a humanoid shaped aberration that emerges from bags of holding. It was originally an adventurer who became lost in the extradimensional space within a bag of holding. Over time it transformed into the monstrous Bagman. Each night it tries to escape back into this realm, called the "Space Between Spaces", by dragging someone else through a bag of holding. If successful, it will abandon its victim, who may also transform into a new Bagman if not returned to the material world. The Bagman is a threat that tries to return home, but no longer knows where home is.

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    The document describes a creature called the Bagman. It is a humanoid shaped aberration that emerges from bags of holding. It was originally an adventurer who became lost in the extradimensional space within a bag of holding. Over time it transformed into the monstrous Bagman. Each night it tries to escape back into this realm, called the "Space Between Spaces", by dragging someone else through a bag of holding. If successful, it will abandon its victim, who may also transform into a new Bagman if not returned to the material world. The Bagman is a threat that tries to return home, but no longer knows where home is.

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    The document describes a creature called the Bagman. It is a humanoid shaped aberration that emerges from bags of holding. It was originally an adventurer who became lost in the extradimensional space within a bag of holding. Over time it transformed into the monstrous Bagman. Each night it tries to escape back into this realm, called the "Space Between Spaces", by dragging someone else through a bag of holding. If successful, it will abandon its victim, who may also transform into a new Bagman if not returned to the material world. The Bagman is a threat that tries to return home, but no longer knows where home is.

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    The Bagman

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    Bruno Krumenerl de Jesus
    The document describes a creature called the Bagman. It is a humanoid shaped aberration that emerges from bags of holding. It was originally an adventurer who became lost in the extradimensional space within a bag of holding. Over time it transformed into the monstrous Bagman. Each night it tries to escape back into this realm, called the "Space Between Spaces", by dragging someone else through a bag of holding. If successful, it will abandon its victim, who may also transform into a new Bagman if not returned to the material world. The Bagman is a threat that tries to return home, but no longer knows where home is.

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    BAGMAN

    Blackened claws. Gangly arms. A bleak and sinew-laden humanoid shape. The
    impossibly narrow opening of a small bag stretches wide to reveal a nightmare
    beyond nightmares. The legs are just as emaciated and overlong as the arms, with
    hooked toes to match. The head is imperceivable, enshrouded by a tangle of long,
    thick hair. From within the darkness of where the creature's face should be, two
    pitons of glowing white light suggest a malicious gaze.
    The Bagman has arrived.
    Beware the Bagman. Some say “The Bagman” is merely an urban legend.
    One version of the story tells of an adventurer who sought to escape certain death by
    abandoning his companions and hiding inside a bag of holding. Later, when he tried
    to leave the bag, he became lost amid a constantly increasing number of extra
    dimensional storage spaces. Over time, the strange forces of this magical in-between
    place transformed the adventurer into a monstrous creature. Now, every night, The
    Bagman slips out from a random bag of holding. If he doesn't find his home, he drags
    someone back into the bag with him and leaves behind some trinket from his hidden
    kingdom of lost junk. Some say that if you speak too loudly over an open bag of
    holding or whisper "follow my voice" into a magical storage space, space three times,
    The Bagman will come for you. Whether this is the true genesis of the bagman or not,
    the fact remains that a bagman is a very real threat, and a fate worse than death
    awaits those dragged into the realm from which they hail.
    “Men”, Not “Man”. The myth of The Bagman would suggest that there is
    only one “Bagman”, however, the reality is much more sinister. When a bagman
    comes through a bag of holding into the material world, it does so in an attempt to
    find its way back to wherever it originally came from. When it is unsuccessful in
    finding its home, the creature always attempts to drag another sentient creature back
    with it into the bizarre realm it calls home, the “Space Between Spaces”. If its
    kidnapping attempt is successful, it will typically abandon the creature before long as
    it continues its quest to find a way back home. Creatures who don’t make it back to
    the material world will find themselves slowly twisted into a new bagman, destined
    to the same nightly ritual of obsessively trying to find their way back to where they
    came from. Why bagmen kidnap creatures is a mystery. Some scholars posit that it is
    a twisted reflex. That maybe they recognize their own perverse nature and a part of
    them hopes to be delivered from their predicament by somebody with their mind still
    intact. Others believe they do so at the behest of a dark entity, an unknown evil that
    is responsible for the creation of the first bagman who uses them as a means to
    gather twisted subordinates for some scheme that is yet to be revealed.
    The Space Between Spaces. For ages it was thought that the space inside a
    bag of holding was a self contained one, completely separate from the rest of the
    multiverse, but this is not so. All of these spaces are mere fragments of a much larger
    plane which scholars refer to as the “Space Between Spaces”. Every
    extra-dimensional space such as that found within a bag of holding or portable hole
    connects to an isolated fragment of this bizarre demi-plane, but for the bagmen and
    other creatures native to the “Space Between Spaces”, a bag of holding is not an
    isolated area, but a gateway to and from the material world. It is unclear if the first
    magic user to create a bag of holding truly knew what they were doing. Did they
    know they were linking our world with a nearly empty one governed by monsters? Or
    perhaps they never stopped to think that there might be something lurking on the
    other side.
    Aberrant Nature. Bagmen do not require air, food, drink, or sleep.

    ---------
    “What do you suppose the bagman will do
    when he finally finds his way back home?”

    “It’s possible he already has. I don’t imagine


    he even knows where home is anymore.
    ---------

    Bagman
    Large aberration, chaotic evil

    Armor Class - 15 (natural armor)


    Hit Points - 168 (16d10 + 80)
    Speed - 40 ft.

    STR 18 (+4)
    DEX 20 (+5)
    CON 20 (+5)
    INT 10 (+0)
    WIS 16 (+3)
    CHA 7 (-2)

    Saving Throws WIS +9, CHA +2


    Skills Perception +7, Stealth +9
    Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened
    Senses darkvision 120f ft., passive Perception 13
    Languages Common
    Challenge 10 (5,900 XP)

    Proficiency Bonus +4

    Traits
    Alien Mind.
    If a creature tries to read the bagman’s thoughts, that creature must succeed on a DC 15
    Intelligence saving throw or be stunned for 1 minute. The stunned creature can repeat the
    saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

    Amorphous.
    The bagman can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

    Grappler.
    The bagman has advantage on attack rolls against any creature grappled by it.

    Shadow Step.
    As a bonus action, the bagman can teleport along with one creature it is grappling to a space
    within 30 feet that is not in an area of bright light.

    Actions
    Multiattack.
    The bagman uses its despondent wail if available and then makes three attacks, two with its
    claws and one with its bite.

    Draining Bite.
    Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature.
    Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) piercing damage. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution Saving
    Throw or gain one level of exhaustion. If the target is killed by gaining too many levels of
    exhaustion they return to life as a bagman after 1d4 days.

    Claw.
    Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature.
    Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage. The target is grappled (escape DC 16). The bagman has
    two claws, each of which can grapple only one large or smaller target.

    Despondent Wail (1/Day).


    The bagman unleashes a wretched wail of fear and anguish, making manifest its feelings of
    loneliness and utter despair at being unable to find its way home. All creatures within 120
    feet of the bagman who can hear must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or become
    frightened of the bagman for 1 minute. Creatures who failed the saving throw can attempt
    another saving throw at the end of each of their turns to remove the frightened condition. A
    creature who successfully saves against this ability can’t be affected by the despondent wail
    of a bagman for 24 hours.

    Egress.
    Using its claw as a blade that can cut through time and space, the bagman creates a magical
    portal that functions in one of two ways. If the portal is created while the bagman is in the
    “space between spaces”, the realm to which all bags of holding are connected, it leads to a
    random bag of holding anywhere in the multiverse and its dimensions are determined by the
    largest opening of that bag. If the portal is created while the bagman is anywhere else,it leads
    to the “space between spaces” and it must be touching a bag of holding. The portal appears in
    the bag’s largest opening. In either case, the portal will remain active for 10 seconds after the
    bagman passes through it, after which it is permanently sealed.

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