Can I get back to the original question? It's not necessary to buy extras with Poser. It is necessary to decide how you want to use Poser. You may want to depend on exterior and-- for the most part-- superior purchased models. Especially if you have no desire ever to model anything. Like, me having no talent whatsoever in that area. You may want to concentrate on Posette-- a very very study and well studied model with tons of possibilities for add-ons and magnets and morphs, not all but most of them free. You want to see what people can do with wit and imagination check out Den Tracy's gallery at PoserPros. He may have one here too. I don't go to the rocity galleries often, too huge to maneuver. He works almost entirely with freebies and does incrediable serial stories with characters he has perfected over a long period of time. I decided I wanted to tell stories too-- but with higher end models and I did so for some time in the Aldara Project at Rdna with V2 and Steph and some odd varieties of Mike2. It's been hard trying to convert these over to the higher end of V3 etc. Too many polygons to get a huge crowd going. At any rate, I knew what I wanted to do before I bought Poser, from cruising these forums, and the galleries and seeing what others were doing and what I wanted to do from that. Then I budgeted in V2 and M2 in my Poser budget before I purchased the program-- bang, no sticker shock. I suggest others do the same, it's a lot easier to get a handle on what you want from the program before you buy. Cheers, Emily