Item Familiar + Absorb Familiar

[Rahnum]

I've heard this is a good combination. Unfortunately I can't find the Absorb Familiar feat, so I can't figure it out. Any thoughts?

[Geistlinger]

The Absorb Familiar Feat is in Races of Renown: Plot and Poison.

[Rahnum]

Oh sorry I also wanted to make a discussion on the combination. Whether Item Familiar and Absorb Familiar was a good combination? I've got a Ranger Dedicated to the art of archery and the hunt, so I could see him doing this if I understand how the combo would go.

[Absynthyne]

For those who cannot look it up, here is a copy from Plot and Poison (if that is indeed the feat you were referring to).

Absorb Familiar (General)
You absorb your familiar into your body, giving you greater power.
Prerequisite: Must have a familiar.
Benefit: Your familiar becomes a part of you, totally subsumed into your being. Any numerical special benefit your familiar grants you (such as the +2 bonus on Move Silently checks from a cat familiar) is doubled. These benefits become permanent extraordinary abilities. You lose access to all the familiar's other abilities, and you may never again take a familiar. If your familiar does not grant you a numerical bonus, this feat grants no benefits.
This feat may be chosen as a wizard bonus feat.

And a link to Item Familiar.

[Rahnum]

Huh...how exactly would that work with an item familiar? What bonuses would that incur, and what would happen with something like a Bow?

[I Hate Nickelback]

Are item familiar and absorb familiar both paizo material?

[Rahnum]

I'm not 100% sure to be honest. I read about it in a few posts, and have been trying to get specifics since. I think Absorb Familiar is from a 3.5 book for Drow. Plot and Poison Races of Renown.

Item Familiar is something from 3.5 something like a paladins bonded weapon but for other people.

[Absynthyne]

Plot and Poison was WotC 3rd Edition material.

[ShadowcatX]

Item familiars are a variant rule (probably from unearthed arcana). Even without absorb familiar they are seriously unbalanced compared to normal familiars. Well normal anything really.

[I Hate Nickelback]

Ok, so I'll never be using these. Interesting idea though. I sort of imagining a guy with a sword familiar melding it into his arm.

[Rahnum]

Really its a 3rd edition? Oh well I apologize then. No point in looking at that then. I thought it was a really cool idea literally becoming one with your weapon but 3rd ed...that's just pushing conversion trying to do 3rd edition with Pathfinder.

Is there anything like that in pathfinder?

[I Hate Nickelback]

Not that I know of. Bonded objects or a scarred witch doctor's mask are the closest I can think of.