Quote Originally Posted by Phelix-Mu View Post
We are (were) discussing Fax' own houseruled change to the spell and how to make it less ambiguous; all quotes mentioned are to Fax' proposed change, not to the srd version. Lines in spells that amount to "[DM adjudication required]" are most decidedly ambiguous.
The line is verbatim from the srd version. It would be counterintuitive to think that it's suddenly descriptive rather than mechanical.

To avoid unecessary confusion it would be prudent to avoid house rules that make non obvious changes, in the same way it's best to use the Oxford comma, to avoid pointless confusion.