Work on
AEON Quickstart is going as fast as it possibly can, though in all honesty I think Christmas (2011!) is going to be a tough deadline to meet. To update you on what the Qickstart edition includes: basic character generation, game mechanics, skills and combat - basically, the sort of things players might need to have on hand when sitting around the game table. AEON Quickstart will
not have rules on background and previous experience, magic, creatures or treasure; what you might term as 'referee rules'. Nor will there be any interior art, although Ganbat's beautiful cover will be there in black & white.
As AEON is not an OGL game, the Quickstart rules do not represent a System Reference Document. However, a copy of the AEON Logo Licence agreement will be included in the back of the book. This is a free licence and extremely easy to use, and it should not put anyone off creating 3rd party supplements for the AEON system.
AEON Quickstart will be available in digest-size (5.5 x 8.5") PDF and POD format from the OneBookShelf websites (DriveThruRPG, RPGNow).
Oh, and keep an eye out for the updated D100II SRD v1.2, which
will be up in the
BRP Central Downloads section by Christmas!