Not to cause anyone undue effort to check worthless items, but a small number of containers such as pouches have been, and will be, fed into the treasure system with stuff inside them.
While a few gems may not be anyone's idea of a nifty item, watching a pouch containing a half-dozen uncut rubies, diamonds, or emeralds get dumped into the trash barrel in Larton's along with the chest they were fed into is a bummer and produces a zero return on the time spent to create and QC the items, small though they may be.
So while an effort is being made to avoid placing items within containers that are torn, ragged, dirt-covered, etc., if the small chest, backpack or pouch looks like someone might have actually worn or used it proudly, perhaps they kept something of value in it. And perhaps the critter neglected to empty it - just like some adventurers do.
Just a heads-up.
-Mikos
