System Mastery 323 – Dragonbane
Let’s take a look at a game out of Sweden, née as Drakar Och Demoner, a classic dungeon crawl game with fairly simple mechanics, sleek layout, and pretty nice art. But does it have enough other stuff to get to good? Well, let’s talk it out.
System Mastery 
I really like this game, though I agree that experience is a bit of a grind.
What I do is to formalize the rule that the GM can award heroic abilities when they like. I have a small curated list of basic abilities, and the players can choose from that when they hit milestones in the campaign. And then they can, on top of that, choose freely from the whole list when they hit an 18 skill.