Thrown Weapons vs Quick-Draw

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Originally Posted by timm meyers

The rules on p.104 regarding spending 3 MA to "scoop up a dropped weapon or other object...during movement" is in the paragraph that ends with this sentence. "A weapon picked up this way is ready next turn".
Pretty clear to me that you cannot use MA (or the Dex roll) to pick up a weapon and then attack with it in the same turn.

It's better if the paragraph ends this way, but in my PDF it ends:

A weapon picked up either way is ready immediately.

This was discussed in a previous thread.