> As for a challenge game, I don't know about that. I don't think I'd find it too interesting to do some of those challenges I've seen listed like play the game only visiting Perrin, play the game without spells/spellcasting items (makes the back 3 essentially useless), play the game without dying, etc.

Well, I've come up with a new "challenge" for myself, that I'm sure has been done before, but makes it much more interesting (to me at least). I'm in the process of retraining and leveling up my characters as druids and assassins to gain all the spells possible and to up my AC/WC. I just went for a little mini excursion, and after clobbering 5 or so groups of monsters on level 10 with my other 5 characters, my newly initiated druid leveled up 11 times and gained 18 spells heh heh