I've never made a druid in pathfinder before. I got a boon by playing 'we be goblins too' that lets me have an Owlbear as a companion, so now I feel motivated to make one. There are a couple things I was wondering about.
How does wildshape work? I've tried to suss out how alter self works in the past, and it turned into a pandora's box of a bunch of different rule interpretations of polymorph + unwritten rule arguments, and the limits of such spells. I hope wild shape is has clear and concise rules. How does it work? What do I get? What don't I get? To what extent do I copy the animal I'm shaping as?
It seems weird to me that a regular and a dire bear both count as large animals to shape into, even though one is clearly superior to the other.
Is this worth investing the time into understanding? I know other people have fun playing druids, it's just that never playing one before makes it hard to wrap my head around them.