Although it is possible to follow along with the Bohavia campaign by checking the story as it develops, this method only allows you to see half of the story. What you're missing when you follow the game in this way is the interaction between the players that makes the difference between simply watching a book being written and watching an immersive role playing game being played. By lurking, you will get the full picture of the game, which is not possible to give you from just the DM's postings that make up the content of the story pages.

Another adavantage of lurking in the campaign is that , if you are new to PBeM's, it gives you an idea as to how they work in practice. Note, however, that the amount of interaction and the pace of the game is a lot higher than in an average PBeM. For more information about PBeM's in general if you are new to the whole concept, check out the PBeM Advice section.

Thanks to the wonderful people running The Phoenyx, becoming a lurker in the Bohavia campaign is simplicity itself. All you have to do is the following:

Send an e-mail to the following address:

bohavia-on@phoenyx.net

In other words just hit your Send button after you click on the above link. You don't need to put anything else in the message at all.

That's all there is to it. I told you it was simple! Within just a few minutes, you will be added to the mailing list for the campaign and will start to receive all of the DM's and players postings as they are sent.

A word of warning before you rush off and subscribe to the mailing list. The Bohavia campaign is a VERY busy game, which can sometimes generate 30 or more postings in a day. If don't want to receive that much mail on a regular basis, then I recommend you find another game to lurk in. In this case, a great place to go is The Phoenyx. Apart from hosting the Bohavia site, they also host a number of other games, some for AD&D and some based upon a number of other systems. The majority of these games are a lot less active than Bohavia, and thus easier to follow. They are all subscribed to in a similar way to the one that I have described above. Go to their site for more information.

If you have any more questions about lurking after reading this page, then please don't hesitate to mail the DM. He loves to receive any kind of feedback.