Originally Posted by Alrik Fassbauer
If a game is focused entirely on dungeons, and dungeon-crawling per se, then he ius right. Towns should be left out.

However, it depends on the style of gameplay. There ARE non-dungeon-crawling RPGs out there (welcome to the new Millennium !).

The decision is at the hands of the maker(s).

Yes of course, but think about it, even in Wizardry 1 you would go to 'town' between dungeon excursions