Starfinder Evolutionist Playtest Update

Monday, September 6, 2021

There are just a few weeks left in the open playtest period for Starfinder’s upcoming evolutionist class. If you haven't already downloaded the free playtest PDF and tried out the new class, you still have time! The playtest ends September 24th, and we need your feedback to make this class the best it can be.

We’re especially excited to share with you a concept sketch of the evolutionist iconic, by our own Kent Hamilton! Look for more information about this new character in the future.

A catlike alien is rife with augmentations and has a futuristic cannon for an arm

Illustration by Kent Hamilton

If you haven’t yet, test out an evolutionist build in a home game or in Starfinder Organized Play, then share your thoughts via our survey or playtest forum.

We're already processing the feedback you've sent us so far and are discussing the ways we might improve the evolutionist class. Also, if you missed our update elsewhere, please note that the evolutionist loses all EP at the end of combat!

Thank you so much for your respectful and productive survey responses and forum conversations—these are invaluable sources of feedback, and we've been keeping a close eye on them. We’re especially interested in any thoughts you have about the complexity of the class.

For those who have already participated in the playtest, we thank you, and to those who plan to still send us feedback: we eagerly await your thoughts!

—The Starfinder Team


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Our new iconic looks fantastic and I'm happy to see Paizo utilizing more non-core races for iconics. Soon enough we should start getting teasers for Galactic Magic and we can meet our precog iconic too.

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Sparrowhawk_92 wrote:
Our new iconic looks fantastic and I'm happy to see Paizo utilizing more non-core races for iconics. Soon enough we should start getting teasers for Galactic Magic and we can meet our precog iconic too.

They are an evolutionist. Are you sure that isn't a human...?


Kitty!


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I love the design! Would love to see the arm cannon be a little bigger though.


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Since Nanocyte and Evolutionist iconics are both Veskarium, I wonder if the Precog iconic will be a skittermander.

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Can someone maybe update the survey a bit? Final thoughts 18. and 19 still talk about the precog where it likely should ask about the evolutionist. Not a huge issue but also pretty easy to fix.


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Sebastian Hirsch wrote:
Can someone maybe update the survey a bit? Final thoughts 18. and 19 still talk about the precog where it likely should ask about the evolutionist. Not a huge issue but also pretty easy to fix.

They've said on past playtests that they can't update the surveys after creation. I'd guess it's the same here.

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