[Prophesy]

This is for Zen,
(I know she's a chummer)
and the few others who are familiar with Shadowrun,

But this is the idea of cyberware vs. bioware.

additions that don't reduce humanity,
at the end of the day...,
a lot of these changes/additons to game rules get thrown out by Game Masters,
because, at the end of the day, while really cool ideas, really frag with balancing issues.

A game like awakenedlands,
Zen has to walk a thin line,
and I think does it very very well,
of incorporating new, fun, progressive content,
without causing an imbalance between different player models,

(ie, donators v. non-donators, rich high level players, vs. newbs, etc)
and I think a stat mod addition that just requires money, without some other kind of trade-off that affects all members of all echelons of the community, would be an imbalance that I feel she's trying to avoid.
*Not trying to put words in Zen's mouth, just an observation*

Money is easy to come by for older, more experienced, higher lvl players, and an addition to stats just requiring cash, and not some other form of trade-off, is something that I think would schew things in the favor of the already powerful established players, and alienate the younger newer members of the community, which is something I believe she conciously tries to take into account, and monitor.