From the Introduction: This document presents an alternative method for assigning background skills to characters in the Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game. The BFRPG core rules allow you to create brave fighters, devout clerics, cunning thieves and brilliant magic-users for the sake of adventuring in varied fantasy worlds. But sometimes adventurers – both during adventures and between them - know how to do things other than fight, pray, sneak or cast spells. These alternative and optional rules try to cover some of these secondary skills.