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A friend of mine recruited me to a new game and I rolled up a Barbarian while another player rolled up a Skald. I got excited, but the GM isn't certain about the interactions between the Skald's Inspire Rage and my own Rage. The exact scenario we discussed and debated is as follows.
Combat starts. The Skald Inspires Rage and my Barbarian goes off to smash. Two rounds later, my Barbarian needs to use one of his activated rage powers, so he must use a round of his own rage to activate it. The Skald continues to Inspire Rage because others in the party still benefit from it. Following that round, does the Barbarian need to continue use his own rounds of Rage to avoid fatigue or can he go back to using the Skald's Inspire Rage, at which point he will become fatigued once the Skald stops.
I argued that the Barbarian is still raging, just from different sources and that it all counts as a single rage (also preventing rage cycling) while he believes that they are separate powers and that if I don't maintain my own rage, I will become fatigued. The campaign hasn't started yet, we were just discuss the mechanics.
You used your rage and that means you're fatigued when you leave it.
Yes, if you enter your own Rage for 1 round to use a Rage power, you will be fatigued for 2 rounds. However, the Skald's Inspired Rage ability at no point states that you cannot benefit from it while fatigued. So at level 1, the Inspired Rage would cancel out the penalty to Str while fatigued, and you would essentially be fighting with a -2 to AC (unless you're a finesse fighter), no other penalties, and still get a bonus to Will saves. Not a terrible trade off if you needed to use a Rage Power.