at that point even if some buckaroo was like 'hey check out this HILARIOUS BIT where i had where i wrote 400 books of surrealist erotica over 10 years' everyone would just be like 'bud... i am not sure what to tell you. i dont think thats a bit.'

TRAIN!

realization: train con could be on the train to churchill mb and we could take an intermission in the middle of the train games to see the polar bears and the aurora borealis 🤩

so you can just look up train car layouts, VIA Rail in particular has a whole area of their website where they share diagrams, the names of each individual train car, and share little facts (e.g. "Park car number 8709 carries the name "Laurentide" on one side, and "Laurentides" on the other")

if every amtrak roomette were full the amtrak sleeper would accommodate more passengers than the via rail sleeper, ESPECIALLY the two-level superliner sleepers, but I expect if this actually happened we would see many roomettes booked with only one passenger

I have been comparing the car layouts between Amtrak and VIA Rail (I think the VIA Rail sleeper car better accommodates the con attendee demographic (mainly solo travelers, some who would pay extra for a room to themselves, others who really just want the cheapest option to include a flat bed))

BUT ALSO THE PERFECT SETTING TO RUN A MURDER MYSTERY GAME!

YES exactly i want to write a megaadventure for the con where everyone plays through scenarios within a wider metaplot that all ALSO take place on a train

yes i've been watching train travel vlogs on youtube again

meme in brittany broski kombucha girl format

d&d in a castle? (uninterested, disgusted)
d&d on a train? (interest piqued, ready to learn more)

Oh nooo, that's right, I DO need to fit spell trickster onto this character for ranged disable device. What's the other 3rd party class archetype? I may end up writing up a new school for this character, too.

Which is not to say you're wrong for liking an eldritch trickster conversion. For me, though, there's a wider context of: this character goes in a party that already HAS another rogue, and this would take a character with 5 prepared 3rd level spells and strip that down to 1 prepared 3rd level spell.

My issue with eldritch trickster (both in general and for this character) is that it's like 90% rogue 10% spellcaster, instead of something closer to 60% spellcaster 40% rogue.

so the top contenders are
a) wizard with rogue archetype
b) starlit span magus with rogue archetype
c) kineticist with rogue archetype

I don't *think* any other classes are good options, but I could be forgetting something, and I think rogue archetype is mandatory. (3/3)

This is a premade character for one of my convention games. The rest of the party (in PF1) was a rogue/fighter/assassin and an oracle (probably rogue w assassin archetype and oracle with rogue archetype in PF2). I do want this character to remain a ranged combatant dealing energy damage (2/3)