It's pretty nutty. I mean, it's not as if anyone old enough to be playing an RPG isn't going to know that grenades explode in the normal course of things and, as such, cannot be retrieved and reused. I mean, I know why they do it, but I've long been of the opinion that rules lawyers of that kind ought not to be humored when disintegration is available.

This was clearly the work of the same playtester who caused the explicit rule spelling out that each weapon on a 'Mech can be fired only once per turn to be added to the second edition of the base game, after realizing that since machine guns don't make heat, you can (if heat is the only limiting factor) vaporize any enemy in the game with a Locust by expending your entire load of MG ammo on him the instant you get within range. :)

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