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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eggynack" data-source="post: 6372239" data-attributes="member: 6775558">There's not necessarily a pattern. The creatures just say what adjustment they have, and that's the adjustment they have. If you're using a monster from the monster manual, then that adjustment is listed under the druid, and if you're using a separate monster that can be an animal companion, it's listed as part of the creature, or in the PHB II, as I'll mention below. Animals that can be animal companions say what their adjustment is. So, for the fleshraker for example, it is explicitly stated that you apply a -3 adjustment, so you do. Alternatively, the PHB II, page 41, has a nearly complete list of every monster that can be made an animal companion, along with their adjustments, and I think it has some monsters that aren't actually mentioned as capable of being an animal companion in their books. Nifty resource, that. Nope, you just summon crazy creatures with no metamagic style adjustment in spell level. I believe the feat was at one point intended to be as you say, but it certainly wasn't written that way, or errata'd later to be that way. Thus, you can toss out a greenbound wolf at first level, and have it throw out a wall of thorns, because the world is occasionally ridiculous. Aberration wild shape might actually be even more ridiculous, at least at the level you get it. It's hard to beat combining nilshai form from unapproachable east with enhance wild shape from the spell compendium, granting two spells every round. It's not like that's the only crazy form either.</blockquote>

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