ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Many melee classes start with a point in Weapon Mastery or Dagger Mastery.

The Brawler does not start out with a point in Unarmed Mastery, and generally he can't put a point there for at least one level, or two levels for some races.

Is this intentional, or is this an oversight?

SHOULD the Brawler start out with a point in Unarmed Mastery?

Having just started a few brawlers it'd be nice, but don't think it's needed.
Halflings can do it from scratch while pretty much all other races can do it at lv2 (at least Dwarves can and they're not overly good with Dex).

I agree with Faeryan... It would be nice to be able to rock it from the start, but they're pretty powerful as it is...

I believe this will be included in the Brawler rework patch. This is definitely a much needed change because Brawlers have by far the worst start out of any class on Nightmare and higher difficulties.