The following strip adequately represents how I feel when someone answers one of my questions with 'it's magic!'.

I'm sorry.

Look, we all know that a wizard did it. We also all know that the DM makes the rules.

The objective isn't to figure out how it works. It's to figure out how to break it so it works for you.

My Computer organization and assembly teacher refers to the processes of the deeper things as magic, and that the 'tech' support people are the wizards. (and anything we are not suppose to yet use but he shows us anyways is known as forbidden fruit(s))

on his tests, if you put magic when you don't know something, you get some points too.

The DM is god. You think you can break his world by figuring around the rules? Wrong.

Is it bad, then, that in my personal fictional setting, I don't let myself fall back on that excuse? Every spell has a how, a why, and another how (how it works and how it's cast). I can't STAND not having an explanation for everything. And I do mean everything. Right down to just how the demonic baddie contacted the Dark Gods, and how they bestow them with their powers without forcing him to eat up divine magic slots.

And yet when you get right down to it, the answer is still the same.

I'm just having flashbacks to the one (and only) time I ever used the 'magic' rationale on Elostian. It was quite entertaining, but I can assuredly give this advice to all those who might think it would be funny:

Don't. It's not.

You never break the rules. You bend them and make him spend the rest of the afternoon fixing it. I.E. Breaking the system.

Until the DM decides that enough is enough and feeds you to a dragon.

Ah yes, this is the lesson, the DM is not one to test your 'bending rule' skills towards.

This is when you must be creative. You have at least 3 other people that the dragon can eat first after all. Surely you can figure some way of escaping the situation, and with lots of XP, while they deal with the great wyrm.

Besides, if you're REALLY bothering him he can just say no.

Him feeding you to a dragon is him saying "no'

Me feeding you to a dragon is me saying "That was creative, and I'll reward that by letting you level this dragon up. Don't do it again."

Me opening a portal above itself until you hit terminal velocity and then having it suddenly exit into the negative energy plane is me saying "You've crossed me for the last time."

How big a portal are we talkin here?

15 x 15 opening 10 ft above itself with an illusory floor over the bottom portal.

Simple enough to get out of. Feather Fall, Overland Flight, Levitate, there's any number of ways to get yourself to safety. A combination of Feather Fall and any form of Telekinesis really could get you out.

I should mention at this point that this was used on a 2.0 bard.

Should have learned some animal husbandry and basket weaving.

Mrph. Even if I find a game where bards are so OP they can kill gods with ease, I will never, ever play one.

Ever.

Sorcerer all the way.

There was no such beast in 2e. But I think we're a bit afield of the OP.