Mods?

I personally am thinking of making a dungeon "booster pack" mod for Skyrim, that just scatters a bunch of new dungeons throughout the countryside, in the same style and presentation of the vanilla ones but more challenging and less linear.

Random dungeons cant match handmade one. That is because we don't invest enough creative thinking in that. If you really try harder, and make those dungeons truly evadable in the game so they don't bother those who loathe them, you can implement them.
Also you might learn something new about making random dungeons so that one day in (far) future (in TES X) those dungeons are good enough.
That is the only reason why it is a mistake not to listen to a OT

I have played games with random dungeons, and even though they are 'RANDOM', they end up being very generic since the game program has to put them together using a set of rules and such. Personally designed dungeons are much more imaginative and much better overall.

Random dungeons = Ruins immersion

the number one reason I never got into diablo was the random dungeons. I like being able to return to a place and know the layout.

How would you feel about your house having an entirely different layout and furnishings every time you came home from work?

I loved Daggerfall and Nethack, but this just doesn't seem like it would fit in Skyrim. I mean, everything in the more recent TES games has been hand-crafted, and having random dungeons mixed in with that seems odd.

Locations would never change, they'd just be randomly-generated.

I think it would actually make a nice mod.
An NPC that transports you to some realm outside of Nirn of wich the layout 'shifts'.
Like in Daggerfall, a random dungeon built of stock blocks, but with todays technology. The challenge would be finding your way through, finding keys, secret doors etc.

But I dont think its something for the vanilla game.

An ever-shifting deadric realm perhaps?
That's a mod I would download.

No they didn't. The whole natural world (with the exclusion of some basic aspects of the shape of the land) was procedurally generated, not handplaced.

most of the oblivion gates in oblivion connect to one of the seven different planes of oblivion

Far to impersonal. Computers can't make something with character and uniqueness like a person can.

I only spent about 100+ in oblivion, so no

From what I've come to understand by all the dungeons being hand made, there's no room 1, room 2, room 3, tunnel 2, tunnel 3 that that the computer can just randomly assort into a new dungeon like it did in daggerfall.

No, doesn't sound like good idea.

Why are people comparing this idea to handcrafted dungeons, this has nothing to do with them. Same with topics on random quests. The op is not saying instead of handcrafted dungeons, this is just an extra dungeon, which with a decent progen sytem would make at least the first few times interesting. I like both ideas my self(and with RS I think a random quest mod is very likely). Extra quests and duneons is always cool. Of course the issue here is dev time. In the case of random quest there is already a system in place to do that but for dungeons there is not.

I don't expect either in the game, but I would get both in mod form. Its great idea.

Actually the game designers used terrain generator for the exteriors cells to get a base to work on but after that they modified and added content by hand.

But I agree handcrafted content is always better than generated.

TES > Minecraft