Re: OT: Null has gone looney and wants to GM.
At 5th, it's less of an issue, as you can't have Natural Spell (don't get Wildshape until 5th, Natural Spell has Wildshape as a requirement, so you can't take it - ever - until at least character level 6).
Perfectly fine house-rule, though. More of a house interpertation, really; DM gets to dictate what item slots are available on a nonhumanoid.
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Oh, and you can relax - at their best, the Ape is maybe worth about a 3rd or 4th level NPC Warrior (well, until it starts getting Druid Bonuses, which doesn't happen until later levels - at which point, they are less useful), and it's the Combat Monkey of the available animal companions. Theoretically, at least, it's rolled into the Druid's effectiveness.
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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