dungeons

Or taking 80+ purple explosion potions with you and hucking them at groups of people still fighting in the dungeons.

The singularity seems like a quasi religion and/or SEO tactic mostly by people who used to play dungeons and dragons.

It made sense to run some low-level dungeons to gear up, since you'd get to keep these items a long time.

Secondly, monster spawns would spread out from dungeons if not periodically kept in check, eventually spawning in town and defeating the guards.

Outside a conference room, I can't think of any compelling use for the thing except dungeons and dragons.

Maybe because I don't have specific experience of running through dungeons destroying invisible monsters with my bfg?

If you make a mod for Skyrim—say, a new dungeon—you're adding that to the existing game and assets and dungeons and all that.

Of course, in my purely anecdotal system based on Dungeons and Dragons.

Not to mention the dungeons took 3-4h to do at 60, and then the once a week raids which took 4h+ each to do.

For example, Desktop Dungeons - a very fun game which has no business demanding anything from my computer since it's turn-based, uses sprites, and barely animated.

The combat in pen-and-paper dungeons and dragons can have this.

People would complete most of the quests, go through the dungeons in your areas multiple times to get armor sets, and do PvP (open world and battlegrounds).

Watch an episode of Thundercats/He-man/Dungeons and Dragons/Mysterious Cities Gold [1] (I loved that show).