Group Backgrounds

This is an option I might implement as an alternative to level zero starts for my homebrew. Basically, the party have a shared background and don't need to meet in a tavern as they have some past in common growing up. Party could roll or pick one. Possibly could be rolled or selected for an individual character also.

d20 Group Backgrounds
1 Urchins
In the big city, scrounging for food, dealing with gangs and orphan catchers
Bonus Skill: Streetwise or Begging or Flee
2 Barbarians
Tribal frontier folk living a harsh life and struggle against other tribes and civilisation
Bonus Skill: Survival or Scouting or Tracking
3 Farmers
Rural life planting crops and raising animals in service of some lord or city
Bonus Skill: Beast-Handling or Farming or Drive
4 Servants
Serving the nobility in a rural or urban household or manor
Bonus Skill: Etiquette or Grooming or Porter 
5 Students
Learning various arts to work as scholars or scribes
Bonus Skill: Scribe or Numeracy or Bureaucracy
6 Musicians
Performing in taverns or houses or busking in the city streets
Bonus Skill: Music Lore or Voice or Poetry
7 Merchants
Working with traders in a shop or a merchant caravan or warehouse
Bonus Skill: Appraise or Bargain or Merchant
8 Religious
Raised in a cloistered church or temple estate surrounded by monks and priests
Bonus Skill: Holy Lore or First Aid or Judgement
9 Mercenaries
War urchins taken as servants of a mercenary or millitary company or guards
Bonus Skill: Looting or Marching or Intimidate
10 Brothel Brats
Offspring of prostitutes or adopted as servants in a whorehouse
Bonus Skill: Carousing or Gossip or Seduce
11 Labourers
Started to work young in some awful unskilled labour
Bonus Skill: Muscle or Endurance or Mining
12 Foresters
Served hunters, game wardens, foresters or poachers in the wild or private woodlands
Bonus Skill: Forestry or Hunting or Nature Lore
13 Mariners
Worked on a ship or a boat with sailors or fishers
Bonus Skill: Swimming or Fishing or Sailing
14 Crafters
Worked as an apprentice in a skilled occupation
Bonus Skill: Carpenter or Builder or Smithing 
15 Sweatshop Workers
Inner city workers in warehouses and basements
Bonus Skill: Weaver or Skinner or Tailor
16 Entertainers
Apprentices to busking street performers or carnival folks
Bonus Skill: Juggling or Tumbling or Performing
17 Tavern Brats 
Served in a tavern waiting on tables and serving guests
Bonus Skills: Hospitality or Drinking or Dancing 
18 Kitchen Worker
Worked in a kitchen in a tavern or a manor house
Bonus Skill: Butcher or Baker or Cooking
19 Cultists
Served a secret forbidden cult hidden in a community
Bonus Skill: Forbidden Lore or Cryptography or Night-Sight
20 Faerie Thralls
Enslaved by fairy folk in elfland and when you got back everyone you know had died
Bonus Skills: Faerie Lore or Herbalism or Cantrip