Quote Originally Posted by Grod_The_Giant View Post
A one-level dip in Inspired Blade Swashbuckler sounds like a good start, netting you 2/3 of the Dex to damage feat, some swordplay techniques and Int+Cha Panache points. You might also throw in a level of Investigator for Inspiration and class skills. (A second level and the Empiricist archetype gets you Int as your key ability score for a whole bunch more skills, too).

Bruising Intellect and Student of Philosophy let you keep up some of the traditional scariness/party-facing.

If you can import from 3.5, Knowledge Devotion is THE classic smarts-in-combat option
Thats some fairly sound advice. Is there more we can do, without losing class levels?

What bout archetypes? Do any of them better lend themselves to the concept than others?