Love the game, hate the puzzles. Recommend a mod?

[Isaac]

I was mostly hoping for story, killing monsters and a deep character system. Oh well, still a good game.

Yeah, but if you look at the games (and the genre) that Grimrock intended... That's rarely (if ever) a feature of this style of game. IMO LoG is the best of class visually, and places decently among the best of genre.

[Asteroth]

If you want story, try dark spire(on the DS). Weird as hell, yet still an old school dungeon crawl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Spire

[Kuningas]

Also, don't lose hope. With the latest update the possibilities are practically endless. I am more than sure more deep character interaction is going to be in, and less puzzle-centric maps will start appearing, owing to the fact that there are bound to be modders like me who couldn't script a complex timed puzzle to save their lives.

We are still a very young community.

[cromcrom]

You might want to try The Lost Continent.
Few puzzles, Open areas, many many new skills/crafting/gameplay elements/items, one big quest and a few side quests.