Quote Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
Skill Knowledge is nice if you can get it, but the page it's on only suggests it in the context of alternative skill systems. Dragging that into non-variant play seems a bit sketchy.
Okay, take the Cosmopolitan feat from the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting instead. Same result.

Alternately, take a Very Old Brass Dragon - they have CR 19, 28 HD, and a caster level of 13th. He can have 16 ranks in Spellcraft as a cross-class skill. Give him two Sorcerer levels and give him 6 more ranks in Spellcraft each level. He now has CR 20, 30 HD, a caster level of 15th, and enough Spellcraft to qualify for the Permanent Emanation feat.

I prefer the "getting it as a class skill" approach, though. Less bookkeeping.

- Saph