The premise is simple, this is a modified Keep on the Borderlands (the Caves of Chaos are on the map, but not right next to the keep) when you play adventurers who have come out to the borderlands for the usual reasons. You will team up with the other PCs (drama is ok, but you have to all want to work together! No PvP... yet, if we make it to Domain level we'll talk). There are a few set locations/hooks, but the map will start out mostly empty of people, critters and such until you explore it. There's no plot, whatever the random encounters are will tell us who lives where and how you deal with them will make up the story as we go.
TLDR; its a hexcrawl.
The Ruleset is my homebrew I made for a past game where the hirelings, henchmen, mercs and such got to be a pain to handle and really bogged us down. The trouble was I like that style of play so I took the mass combat rules and backfit them to the individual level. Basically normal people still have 1HD and those with more fight as if they were that many normals and roll that may D6s. Hits cause damage, when you hit 0 bad things tend to happen to you. Often this results in death or capture (if the victors feel like binding your wounds and having a prisoner/snack for later).
Non-combat rolls use 2d6 and a table like the Reaction Table.
Character classes are all the usual ones though I base them all on three core structures, they ought to be familiar to you all:
Fighters: They get a hit die every level, use all the weapons and armor and they mess things up in a fight.
Mages: They get a hit die every other level. Off levels they get spells, no armor, uses all the good magic.
Hybrids: Cleric is the most basic as it just takes a piece of each of the others. Decent combat, some magic. Rogues use the skeleton of this progression swapping the magic for their specialist skills.
In any case everyone gets 2 things every level:
A Hit Die or a Spell Die (always one and not both)
A class ability to add some personalization (fighters can use these to paladins, rangers, etc)
Anyway, I can give more info if anyone cares to try it out.
Whose up for some thrilling exploration and death defying adventures to find their fortunes and leave their mark on the world?
The Margrave's uncle is an archmage with a tower near the keep that rumor says is linked by a magical door. I have written some in-universe things by him about various cultures and critters. Mages are educated in Church operated Universities much like anyone else and humans are largely monotheists who belong to what they would normally just call The Church though they refer to their god as The Lawgiver. 
