Composer99
Hero
Apropos of overlong spell descriptions, teleport starts at the bottom quarter of the left-side column on page 281, takes up the entire right-side column on the next page, and then leaves two orphan lines of text atop page 282! Surely there could have been an editing pass to get the spell's entire text on a single page if the designers did not want to mess around with the layout or text of other spells on page 281.
At any rate, I agree that for short spell descriptions, duplicating the effects in a special ability or magic item (especially when printing in an adventure or other not-core-rulebook-text) is sensible, whereas for spells such as teleport, referring the reader to the spell description seems more appropriate.
At any rate, I agree that for short spell descriptions, duplicating the effects in a special ability or magic item (especially when printing in an adventure or other not-core-rulebook-text) is sensible, whereas for spells such as teleport, referring the reader to the spell description seems more appropriate.