I've noticed Undertaker's thread about making the game more complicated at
http://37852.rapidforum.com/area=3
It is a bit too long for me to read, but I publish my own methods for anyone's interested. (I've also heard some of Reanimator's cruel ideas, but telling them is up to him.)
Usually I play without using wands, aces, guardians, and curing items (I was always too greedy to use them anyway), without using Vaelan's cube against ghosts (it's too easy).
I do not pick Timothy and do not use Lora's fighting abilities (Sadie won't pay me for training her niece and I don't need that as well).
Later I stopped picking a lantern and an atlas, sometimes even a compass.
Ferocious level became default long ago, but now I think the age of another difficulty level begins.
Of course, all these self-restrictions are optional for me.
There's Reanimator's idea I liked much: passing the game as fast as possible. (Loading the games is allowed but the time you've spent is counted even if you want to replay something).
With some of my usual restrictions which had just became habits, my best time is 2h25m.
So Lands I is not too long game after you spent years playing it!