[RPG] What use is Skill Beyond Your Years

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In low-level D&D variant E6, you max out at level 6 and only gain feats every 5,000XP thereafter. There is a feat as follows:

Skill Beyond Your Years
Prerequisite: Level 6
Pick a skill. Your max ranks rise from Level+3 to Level +5.

Is this feat of any actual use? You can't gain levels past 6 in E6, and therefore can't gain further skill points even if your max ranks goes up.

Best Answer

There's a feat called Open Minded in 3.5 that gives you five extra skill points, so it could be used together with this feat. It would stack with Skill Focus etc, and might help you meet the prereqs of some otherwise unavailable feat.