Well I’m sitting here with my shiny new Shadowbane box. If tis is anything like Everquest it will be about 2 years until I have a social life again. 
Any players here yet? Any suggestions?
Don’t play Shadowbane. Those games are so bad for you. No joke. (and btw, nothing, nothing is or ever will be like everquest. )
Just thought I’d throw in a warning.
My friends and I put together a guild for shadowbane 2 freaking years ago. 2 years! They are still gonna play, COOLGUY230 is on here, he’s one of the members.
Anyway, you probably won’t even read this since you are starting a new addiction, i mean game.
Shadowbane isn’t anything like EVerquest. There is no first person point of view, you move with the mouse, and every server is PvP. It plays like an online version of Diablo but not quite as cool. Your looks don’t matter because the camera is so bad that you will likely never see yourself (the camera tends to bug around so you only get a top down view of yourself). So don’t worry about what you look like. Also, the loot rules make it so that people can steal basically all of your stuff. Not just one item, not just a few items but all of it, unless you bond some of them to you, but in reality you can only bond a few pieces.
I played me about ten minutes of Shadowbane. The graphics reminded me of VRML (showing my age here, I suppose).