DM: you enter a room that is obviously, grossly, filled with magical energy. There's this fragile pillar-within-a-pillar, surrounded by evil black goo. There's a shattered crystal statue. There's a cage containing an mystical diagram and an odd congealed clue. And there's lots of arcane formulae floating around.
Butthead: Let's... break something.
Beavis: Yeah! Um, okay--I break the statue!
DM: It's already broken. It's actually a crystal corpse.
Butthead: Like, a dead guy? Cool! I pick up his head and throw it at Beavis.
Beavis: What? No way!
Butthead: I gave you head.
Beavis: Huh huh.
Butthead: Huh huh.
DM: What do you do now? Look at the formulas, or the arcane diagrams?
Butthead: Uh.... "words, words" huh huh, "words"
Beavis: This sucks! Let's break something!
Butthead: What else can I smash?
DM: Well, the cage is made of metal. As for the pillars, the inner pillar is rock while the outer pillar is glass. An evil-looking liquid-
Beavis: He said glass! Smash the pillar, Butthead!
Butthead: Yeah.
DM: -it contains a really nasty-looking oil, and-
Butthead: I smash the pillar.
DM: ...okay, it explodes, and covers Beavis with burning evil goo.
Beavis: AHHHH! AHHHH!
Butthead: You're on... fire. Huh huh.
Beavis: AHHHH! huh huh AHHHHH! IT BURNS! huh huh
Butthead: huh huh. Burning is
cool.
-z
PS: Not meant as an insult! This latest update just reminded me how often adventuring parties solve problems by busting things apart.
