Rules Update: Master Warrior

It appears to me that you can learn the tier 3 skills for power and protection without knowing the appropriate weapon style.  Am I correct?

You can learn any of the t3 skills without the appropriate weapon style, you would just be unable to use them.

As a person whose backstory prevents using other weapons, I want to say this sucks.

All it does is prevent you from using 1 skill. There are way worse things that could happen. How many lore skills do you have that you have never used

As a person whose backstory prevents using other weapons, I want to say this sucks.

So you made a good Role-Playing decision.  This sucks, how?

It's far better than having a background where you don't use other weapons, and then choose to ignore that background, powergame, and open a list geared specifically for people who used said weapons in combat.

If achieving the full capacity of the Master Warrior list is THAT important to Edwin, let the role-play dictate the outcome.

You miss the point, Geoff, or at least my point.  The guy who plays Edwin actually read the corpus of the rules before playing.  Wrote the backsory after playing.  Realized MW was a list he would probably RP into (again from the PoV of Edwin) after a few years and only having a staff was no impediment to it (actually not having access to knightly weapons).

The list changed, which is not a bad thing.  That the usage requirements changed, is, in my opinion, sucky.

As to the matter of lores - Not using them cannot effect me - and I have used all but a few at one time or another.  Just as I have used all of my literacies.  It is a way to reflect what Edwin has become, as opposed to being primarily a combat character, which I have striven to avoid.

Charlie, maybe wait till you're combat ready again before getting frustrated with the new lists? By that time, some of the other higher lists might be out and you may see something else that's even better for your character. From an RP perspective, knights and other Middle Earth type warriors of the highest order never use a staff as their primary weapon.