Picking up dropped items?

[mqstout]

They go to the discard. There are a couple scenarios (I don't recall right now official or not) I've read that have certain items go to the death square, but even in those most things go to the discard. There board just isn't big enough for items to be left in squares without using all sorts of letter/number tokens, cluttering it up. There are also the searching and building Pick Up: rules that take care of these things (such as "Just What I Needed" and the gun shop's pick up).

You were right in that they can't. However, you were also right to bend the rules for more fun in this game too (as long as everyone knows the rules were being bent).