Potential

The Potential field displays the inherent flexibility of a character, and represents their ability to learn new things easily. In PathRunner, this is represented through two factors - Paths and Hero Points.

Unique abilities relegated to what other systems may call “Classes” are categorized into Paths. Individual abilities within a Path are called Talents, and a successive list of Talents which you must progress through to get stronger abilities are called Trails. To this end, a Path contains one or several Trails, which contain individual Talents.

For every new Path you wish to learn during your character’s adventure, you must spend a scaling amount of Experience to unlock the Path in question, unless you select a high Potential on the Priority Chart. Each point of Potential is equivalent to one free Path - you do not need to choose which Paths the Potential is spent on immediately, but you must spend your Potential before you may begin buying Paths with Experience. All characters begin the game with one free Path of their choosing.

Secondly, for every Path you unlock, you gain an additional Hero Point. This means that a character with Priority Level A in Potential receives 4 additional Hero Points at the start of the game. On account of all characters beginning with one free Path of their choosing, all characters begin the game with 1 Hero Point.