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I've been looking at some of the Bardic Masterpieces and Skald Sagas, and I've come across a bit of a strange Saga. Lay of the Scholar King can be found here, and is essentially an ability where you add your CHA mod to INT based skill checks, but take your INT mod as a penalty on CHA based skill checks. My confusion arrives in the cost in Raging Song rounds to activate it. The use cost and use actions are listed as:
Use: 1 raging song round per round.Action: 1 minute.
Now, the bit I'm not sure on here is whether the minute long activation means you need to spend 10 rounds of raging song to activate the ability, and then a further 1 round of raging song for each round the ability is required to be used for. Almost all performances have a set Use cost when the action time is one minute or more which does not scale per round (for example, Triple Time), or have the per round cost stated as per round of performance, rather than activation - such as Toccata and Fugue of the Dense Macabre. The appropriate section from Bardic Masterpieces on all of this is:
Use: This line specifies how many bardic performance rounds the bard must use to activate the masterpiece.
My interpretation of all this from a Rules as Written perspective is that the cost is a set 10 rounds to activate, and then an additional round for every round you use the ability - but this seems rather expensive, and I suspect this was not the intended rule. Am I missing anything here?
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I'm not sure I have a helpful answer, except that you're understanding of what's written agrees with how I read the rules as well.
Which would mean a minimum of 11 rounds of usage, which does seem absurdly high.