Skill Levels with Background Skills

[bigdamnhero]

Can a 4-point Skill Level be applied to all Background Skills? Or would you need to buy separate ones for KSes, PSes and SSes? (I assume you can't apply Skill Levels to LSes & TFs, since they don't have rolls?) Or phrased another way: what's the pricing structure for +1 Skill Level with all PSes (or all KSes or all SSes), vs that for all Background Skills? Thanks,

[Steve Long]

As stated in HERO System Skills, on p. 308:

 

 

Characters cannot buy 4-point Skill Levels with “all Background Skills.” Instead, they must apply a 5-point Level to one type of Background Skill:  KSs, PSs, or SSs.

 

To apply to all Background Skills at once, you have to buy the 8-point "all noncombat Skills" Skill Level.