So what is a Masquerade Reveler? According to the fluff, its a fey inspired Barbarian archetype, but I'll tell you now that you will easily confuse it with an entire class. Throughout the whole thing I thought to myself, "Well, that's cool and all, but it doesn't have any other class features." and then I remember, "Oh yeah, it does barbarian stuff. Right."
Instead of raging the Masquerade Reveler spends it's rounds of rage wearing a mask. Each mask is a collection of eidolon evolutions tied to the theme of the mask. The mask themes are either fantastical or fey creatures or animals with each mask scaling from having 4 points of evolutions to 6 and eventually 8. You get 4 masks at first level and another mask every level after that. It sounds simple but it takes a lot of book keeping to know what masks you have and what each of the evolutions do. The sheer amount of different masks mean that you're able to have a lot of variety in what you do. There are even some Mythic Masks. The book also comes with a slew of new evolutions for eidolons and some feats to round things out.
Not much else to say. Its a straightforward product. That is probably the single best Barbarian archetype I've ever seen. It might as well be a new class considering the amount of options and the way that it just changes assumptions of the class. I'm willing to even say it is the best archetype of anything in Pathfinder. It takes the totem aspect of Barbarian and cranks it to 11. And on top of that it offers Mythic support and some nice evolutions for your summoner. Normal Barbarian should be embarrassed to even exist in the face of this archetype. I have no choice but to give it 5 out of 5 stars. It's just that good.
You can find it over on Paizo.com here.
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