Prestige Classes:
Loremaster
New Class Skills
The loremaster's new class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Cryptography (Int), Research (Wis), and Use Device (Int).
Class Features
All of the following new rules apply to the loremaster prestige class.
Limited Knowledge: The DM should keep loremasters' circumstances in mind when determining their access to different kinds of knowledge. A loremaster from a frontier world with no previous contact with offworlders is unlikely in the extreme to have any information about other worlds. Of course, the loremaster may be the only living person who knows that his planet has had contact with offworlders. Loremasters can come up with all kinds of obscure and unlikely information, but they can't do the impossible.
Research: A loremaster with the Technical Proficiency feat gains a special competence bonus on all Research checks equal to her class level. The loremaster is constantly using, testing, and personalizing modern data-processing methods and analysis.