Orc Barbarian advice?

[enzymezero]

I recently just got back into Pathfinder and joined a new game. It is a 25 point buy, starting at level 2 and for flavor I decided to do Orc Barbarian. I just have several questions and not necessarily concerned with optimization.

All Pathfinder books are allowed (Core, UC, UM, etc) (no psionics or 3rd party stuff though)
1) What is a good way to get by the orc's light sensitivity problem?

2) I was looking at the True Primitive archetype, but it looks awful in terms of giving up fast movement. What other archetypes would you recommend? I'm looking for my orc to come from the fringes of society.

3)Would multiclassing be possible with the orc's stats? I noticed the rage prophet prestige class, but with penalties I'm not sure it would be worth it at later levels

[RedPorcupine]

1) Shades and a hooded robe, is all I can think of.
2) Drunken Brute - be an alcoholic orc.
3)A Charisma of 11 should be possible with a 25pt buy, better 13

[Jiggy]

A friend of mine has a very effective Rage Prophet, but unfortunately I don't know the details of the build (but it's on 20pt buy, so it couldn't be too hard for you).

For a barbarian, it's really hard to mess up - just make sure you have high STR and CON, and you can't really go very far wrong. It might take work to get that last little bit of optimization, but just having high STR and CON will be like 90% of your power.

[Krinn]

Light sensitivity for an orc just means that you'd be dazzled in BRIGHT sunlight (not just normal sunlight) and within a daylight spell.
Dazzled means -1 to perception and attack rolls, not a big deal.

Either take weapon focus with your weapon of choice to offset the -1 to attack rolls, or use an oil of darkness (300 gp). It lowers the illumination level by one step so it effectively negates the light sensitivity problem unless you're within a daylight spell, and if you manage to fight in perfect darkness, your darkvision helps see through it.

If you don't want to give up your fast movement, just go with the plain barbarian, or savage barbarian, or superstitious, or wild rager. You don't have to be illitterate to come from the fringes of society, and you can always roleplay your illiteracy regardless of the namesake class feature if you wish.

I think multiclassing lost its appeal with pathfinder, so if you like the barbarian, I suggest just stay pure barbarian :)

[enzymezero]

Krinn wrote:

I think multiclassing lost its appeal with pathfinder, so if you like the barbarian, I suggest just stay pure barbarian :)

I thought I had to have a level or so in oracle to take rage prophet, which was my main concern.