Really glad to hear you're enjoying the game!! Tell your players thank you as well!
1 - Reputation explanations were something cut from the free PDF but they will be in the full game. The PDF went much bigger than we were expecting, but I can assure you (because I just checked because I have a terrible memory) that the Reputations are explained in detail in the full product. It will, in fact, be the very first thing explained in Chapter 3: Character Creation.
2- Gear is explained in the PDF however. Gear Points (and how you can gain them) can be found under the Travel Mechanics, specifically the Move Gear Up (on page 26 of the PDF), and what Gear is, and how it's used, can be found on Page 24 and 25. The entire Gear List however is not in the PDF but will be in the final product. This was, once again, cut for brevity of the free version of the game.
We expect to have the PDF out to backers at the end of this month. Our artists have December and January off for holidays, family, and the like, but we'll be back swinging with art in the new year. We're aiming for a PDF release by Fall of next year to everyone on Itch and Drivethru, and a physical release to backers in Winter as per Kickstarter obligations. We will then be eying Print on Demand over at DrivethruRPG in 2026 if we can meet all of those goals.
And the likelihood is solid, given that we've been ahead of schedule for our goals this year.