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I'm making an Eldritch Trickster Rogue, and if I'm reading Hide right, it's impossible to proc sneak attack damage using spell attacks from hiding unless your GM rules otherwise.
You cease being hidden if you do anything except Hide, Sneak, or Step. If you attempt to Strike a creature, the creature remains flatfooted against that attack, and you then become observed. If you do anything else, you become observed just before you act unless the GM determines otherwise.
Sneak and Create a Diversion are similar. As the rules seem to frequently separate Strikes from spell attacks, spell attacks aren't sneak attacks just because you were hiding when you started casting the spell. A bunch of other class feats and features seem like they would be difficult to proc, as well. Debilitating Strike, Sly Striker, etc.
To be honest, this seems like it leaves Magical Trickster and Eldritch Trickster at such a disadvantage to all of the other Rogue feats and rackets that they're mostly pointless. Is there something that I'm missing that makes this work without having to get my GM's permission to treat spell attack rolls as ranged strikes?