Quote Originally Posted by Crichton View Post
No, it is not. It has no entry/field at all for Level Adjustment, which, according to the general rules for Template entries/fields, means the template doesn't modify that entry from what the original creature had.




As you say, the LA: - entry is for the sample Ghast, but the actual Template, on page 162, has no entry for LA. The default isn't either LA:0 or LA:- though. The default for Templates is that if a particular entry is missing from the Template, then the Template doesn't change that aspect of the original creature.
The spellstitched template is from a 3.0 book, which was published before level adjustment was a thing. Figuring out what the LA should be is part of the minor adjustments a DM has to do in order to use 3.0 content in a 3.5 game. In other words, it's up to your DM what spellstitched's LA is, but you can't assume it's LA +0.