Classes Similar to Lore Master

[Yogibear41]

Are there any prestige classes similar to lore master in that they advance arcane casting and have a heavy knowledge focus?

[ZamielVanWeber]

Tainted Scholar from Heroes of Horror. But be careful: there are ways of breaking that totally open.

[prufock]

Paragnostic Apostle in Complete Champion.

[Biffoniacus_Furiou]

Dracolexi from Races of the Dragon.
Sovereign Speaker from Faiths of Eberron.

[Phelix-Mu]

There is limited similarity, but Urban Savant from Cityscape has excellent skill points, special uses for some of the Knowledge skills in a city context (similar to the Archivist's Dark Knowledge), and some other useful city-themed abilities. One of only a few full-progression casting classes that gives good skill points.

Also, Unseen Seer has a divination focus and lots of skill points, can kind of fill a similar role. Also gives some nice stealth abilities, which can be kind of useful for a less front-line, bookish caster. Unseen Seer is from Complete Mage.

[RolandDeschain]

Are you an elf?

Olin Gisir

[Falcon X]

Eh, I'm a big fan of knowledge-based base-classes:
- Factotum: THE knowledge class, with 1 spell per spell level.
- Duskblade with Knowledge Devotion. Comes across as a really smart swordsman/spellcaster.
- Archivist: Basically a Wizard, but with Divine spells.
- Beguiler: Lots of skills and an Int based caster.

[Phelix-Mu]

Are you an elf?

Olin Gisir

POINTS. I love this very obscure PrC.

[Story]

POINTS. I love this very obscure PrC.

Free metamagic or item creation feat for a one level dip? Why isn't this more popular? Seems like a good choice to slot into any gaps in a Grey Elf Wizard build, especially Mailman types.

[Palanan]

And for dwarves, there's the Ollam, from Complete Adventurer.

Only 3/5 spellcasting progression, but it has a dwarven version of bardic lore, and a couple other quasibardish things.

[Crake]

- Factotum: THE knowledge class, with 1 spell per spell level..

Think it's worth noting that its 1 spell of their highest level, and a maximum of 1 specific spell per day, but if your highest spell level is 5, you can have one 5th level and then all the rest 4th level iirc?

[Diovid]

Loredelver from Races of Destiny, though it is an Illumian-only prc.

Entering classes such as Loredelver, Urban Savant and Paragnostic Apostle via Bardic Sage (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#bardVariantBardicSage) is a decent idea.

[Yogibear41]

Thanks for the suggestions all :smallsmile:

[Thurbane]

Dark Scholar from Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde.

[Jeff the Green]

Are you an elf?

Olin Gisir

Dark Scholar from Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde.
Similarly, Primal Scholar from Secrets of Xendrik. Pretty dependent on Action Points, though, like a lot of stuff from the Eberron books.