I found this reference to Age of the Rebellion Beta Kits, consisting of:

- Four copies of the 244-page, softcover Age of Rebellion beta rulebook

- Four sets of six pre-generated Age of Rebellion character sheets

- One promotional poster

http://www.phdgames.com/shape-future/

Considering we have 4 players at our table, and each has bought their own dice, copy of the EotE core rules, we are actually looking at it as a possible way of buying into Beta.

Has anyone heard anything about kits? Are they likely to be available to the general public or is this likely to be something targeted only at gaming stores?

Those are the types of things they tend to only sell to stores.

Found a little more info here:

http://www.d20radio.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=12612&sid=244f59b5ef62002c8ebd3673b4e62a83

Yeah, my FLGS at first informed me that the only way to get the beta was if I bought one of the four-book kits. I hope that FFG is making single copies of the beta available to game stores...

Yeah, my FLGS at first informed me that the only way to get the beta was if I bought one of the four-book kits. I hope that FFG is making single copies of the beta available to game stores...

The store buys the kit. It can then sell the four books individually. Good grief...

I was given one of the kits to run AoR at my FLGS.

I have one- Not the kit, but the tools for running the game. The store I frequent needed a demo GM, so they gave me what I needed, the book and the toon sheets.