[RPG] What are the consequences of putting an inside-out bag of holding inside a bag of holding

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Disclaimer: I'm new to D&D 5e and am currently playing my first campaign.

Recently we had a situation where another player had acquired a large number of bags of holding. Initially he was going to store the extras inside a single bag of holding, but the rest of the party quickly objected to this citing the well-known consequences of putting extradimensional objects inside other extradimensional objects.

However, I also know that the rules state that inverting a bag of holding causes all held items to spill out. This doesn't cause a rift to the Astral plane to open, and you don't consider the rest of the universe to be inside the bag of holding.

I assume this means that inverting a bag of holding must somehow collapse its pocket dimension temporarily until the bag is returned to a non-inverted state. If this is the case, it's effectively a normal bag until righted.

What are the consequences of putting an inside-out bag of holding inside a bag of holding? As far as I'm aware, there's nothing in the rules about this (not that I know the rules very well). Is this a valid way to store many bags of holding?

Best Answer

Welcome to the Astral Plane.

The bag of holding doesn't care if it's inside-out or not:

Placing a bag of holding inside an extradimensional space created by a handy haversack, portable hole, or similar item instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the Astral Plane.

No exception is made for inside-out bags, neither in this magic item description, nor anywhere else in the 5th Edition corpus.