Game is a Turn-Based game where you move your Pokemon around a square based grid. There are obstacles such as Trees and Lakes that are inaccessible except only to Pokemon with the ability to enter them. Movement is similar to that of a Rook(aka the Castle-like Chess Piece), only that you're not limited to one direction when moving and you're only limited by your Pokemon's movement. My Pokemon is Mozilla(a Kanto Vulpix) with a movement of 6, hence I can move 1 square to the left and five squares up if i so choose or 3 squares to the left and 3 squares down. So long as its no more than 6 and not violating any of the movement rules(which he has posted on page 1), its a valid move.
Now when executing a move, you may move your Pokemon up to your movement and then have several options. You can either execute an Attack(from the four attacks randomly given to you by Lycan and each Attack has a certain range or limitations to its use. I and everyone in the game can help you with this as I'm new to the game too as I've never played anything PMD related), pick up an item(Lycan will randomly place items on the ground for us to pick up in the form of Pokeballs), interact with NPC's(so far I haven't witnessed that) or Sprint(a second movement action where you can move again up to your movement total. In my case I could move an additional 6 squares).
Once everyone on our side makes our move, Lycan takes over as the Gamemaster and moves the Enemy faction. A battle is considered over when all Enemy Pokemon have been fainted or if we all fall to the Enemy's actions(would be unfortunate but its a possibility). So far no one has fallen to Lycan's actions in the first battle and he's still taking sign-ups. We had three people(MysticalNinetales, Nah and Caite-Chan) join us in the current round. They chose Pachirisu, Gible and Magnemite respectively. Whatever non-legendary/non-mythical Pokemon that is a NFE(non-final evolution) you want, you can be. You'll also need to pick an ability(Hidden Abilities aren't allowed), a gender and a Nickname for your Pokemon(although this last one is optional).
Hence the sign-up would be like so:
Name: Xnaut(or nickname for Pokemon)
Pokemon: Vulpix(Kanto) <- example
Ability: Flash Fire <- example
Gender: Female(or Male or N/A if Pokemon happens to be genderless)
VM or PM that to Lycan and he'll place you on the board. If you're wondering what everyone else picked, we got a Vulpix(Kanto), Vulpix(Alola), Scyther, Zangoose, Archen, Absol, Mimikyu, Marill, Slakoth, Rowlet, Ralts, Shinx, and Wailmer. You're welcome to go as one of those or a different species. Pretty much w/e you want so long as its not mythical or legendary.
Not knowing how to play is not an excuse in my book. I'm completely new to it and I make mistakes all the time. In fact I'm mistake prone to where I :15: <- aka I mess up. Give it some thought and if you want to play, go contact Lycan