Bladebound Magus's Black blade

[Elric200]

Is a Bladebound Magus's blackblade considered an Item Familiar?

[Java Man]

What is an item familiar?

[Belafon]

Are you perhaps referring to something like the Mythic Archmage path ability “Transformative Familiar?” It is not.

The black blade is intelligent, but is not a familiar. You can’t use any feats or abilities that apply to a familiar.

[Diego Rossi]

You are the Blade familiar. ;-)

[Mysterious Stranger]

The only reference I can find to an item familiar is in 3.5. Pathfinder is a standalone game that started out being somewhat compatible with AD&D 3.5, but now most GMs don’t allow 3.5 content. In 3.5 to gain an item familiar you have to take the feat.

The Blackblade class feature grants you exactly what it says, no more no less. So, it would not gain any of the benefits from being an “Item Familiar”. If the GM allows 3rd party content (3.5 should be considered 3rd party content), then he needs to decide how it interacts with the game.

[Melkiador]

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A magus with this class feature cannot take the familiar magus arcana, and cannot have a familiar of any kind, even from another class.

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A black blade is bonded to a particular magus, much like a familiar, but in more of a partnership than a master-servant relationship.

So, it's not strange that people would think it's a familiar. It is very adjacent to being a familiar. But it isn't a familiar