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My two favorite Warhammer rule names:
1. Eats Elves for Breakfast. (Grom)
2. Copious Vomit. (Throgg)

Curse of zogwart=best rule ever!

It's a Grot's Life, especially the version from the previous codex.

I forgot about Marbo's "He's behind you". I've yet to see an unsurprised face when I read off what it allows him to do. Very, very funny.

I mentioned it earlier but


Is made of win!

'Nids 'without number' rule. The ants go marching one by one....

LLF

Favored Enemy. Nothing says fun like re-rolling missed attacks for just 1 point.

That table IS full of win

The shock attack gun's table is also full of win

There is an RPG called The Floating Vagabond. Everything in it is great but my personal favorites are what they called the effects. All were good. One is the Howard, Fine and Howard effect. At any time you can pull a cream pie from behind your back and pelt someone. They then have a 50% chance to do the same. Much mess happens at that point. Or there was the Errol Flyn effect. At any time you need one there is a vine or rope or chandalier (did I spell that right?) where you can swing into a room or something with very dramatic results. The drawback to that effect was if you are presented with a choice of using a door or swinging through a window, you must take the window like it or not. Also the skills are funny such as if you get the sword fighting skill it is called Swing Nasty Pointy Thing. Or the sizes of a shooting weapon are gun, big gun, very big gun, and don't point that at my planet.

burt

Skaven- "Life's cheap."

gun, big gun, very big gun, don't point that at my planet.

WIN

Hallucinogen table

WIN, gonna bring it to my FLGS

My favourite special rule? (I'm suprised I'm first to say this.)

Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddd!!!!!!!

Waaagh! from the Orks codex. I hardly ever get to use it, but it makes Noobs soooo nervous!

The "Oops, sorry sir" from the old Catachan codex. Commisars had a 1 in 6 chance of not even making it into the game.

ZF-

From GW: The Madboy random psychosis tables. yes tables I think there were about ten. First you rolled for the madboys psychosis, then you rolled on the table to see which expression of the psychosis you got. This might involve subtables. Multiple orks in the same unit might start suffereing from different psychoses.

Long winded but worth it. Includes such rules as shooting the nearest target of a certain colour determined randomly - from a sub-table of course. Green was not on the table as orks, so it said, even mad ones, love green.


Gaming in general: Something from Chaosium Runequest, exactly what would take some thought. But my gaming heart lies in Glorantha, those who get the name reference will understand.

Listen up Maggots! - Color Sergeant Kell

Necromanda Falling rules:

Damage for falling was one hit with a strength equal to the distance in inches the model fell. You could shoot people off towers. You could pick them up and throw them (combat skill). Or my personal favorite you could have your models walk off a building an land on an opponent with a 50% chance of sharing the hit with them. I played scavies and had plague zombies that would bellyflop on genestealers and other high powered guys.

Scavies cannibal rules: You could eat your own guys or capture opponents instead of paying against starvation.

Zad Fnark wrote:The "Oops, sorry sir" from the old Catachan codex. Commisars had a 1 in 6 chance of not even making it into the game.

"Spooked!" from C:Catachan is a gem too - 1,1 on the difficult terrain dice and your squad spends the turn blazing away into the jungle

Morghur's "Spirit-Essence of Chaos," while not as entertainingly named as his other rules (Insane Wanderer, Despiser of Civilizations, The Taint ), is so totally awesome for what it does in game. Bringing the chaos back to chaos!

Vote for Most Ill-Named Rule: "Reliable" on skaven jezzails

- Salvage

The old madboyz chart, Get doze wurrin tekno-bitz away from me!

2ed displacement field: I avoided your vortex grenade but i displaced into a wall and died
2ed Assault cannon: You fired it once twice if your lucky but when it managed to fire it was awsom
2ed Terminator armor, they were rightly feared back then and i still miss them. RIP

not realy a special rule but when you use space wolf scouts and a have a wolf guard battle leader in termi armor,
Brother Wolf Guard Bijorn are you sure that no one will hear us?

A couple of favorite rules:

I liked in 3rd edition (might be 2nd) you could not target ICs, and MC blocked LOS to other MC. So you put an avatar in front of a wraithlord and you could not target the avatar because he is an IC, and you could not shoot the wraithlord because he is blocked by the avatar who is an MC. This created an untargetable unit.

One of my other favorite rules was for 2nd edition orks. A trukk could carry as many orks as you could pile the models into it, but if any of the models fell out while moving your trukk, they died.

The Avatar/Wraithlord combo is flawed. You couldn't target the IC unless it was the closest target. Putting him in front of the Wraithlord makes him the closest, and thus a viable target.

Two others.

'It's a Grots life'. Get in them thar minefields, stumpy!

'Nobody Cares' for Gnoblars. Just a brilliant name!

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:The Avatar/Wraithlord combo is flawed. You couldn't target the IC unless it was the closest target. Putting him in front of the Wraithlord makes him the closest, and thus a viable target.

Unless there was anything else closer than the Avatar.

Funniest special rule: Codex: Daemohunter, force weapons. Oh, did I just ignore your eternal warrior? lol

God I wish I could see those mad and weirdboy rules. Sounds so freakin fun.

I think my current favorite is Shike's see but be unseen or something. Like, once you click you can't unclick.

Mostly because of the panty-bunching fervor people have worked themselves into despite knowing how the rule is supposed to function. 'But it's the internet and I gotta' be right' kinda stuff.

I LOVE that poop.

I have to bring up "By the authority of the Immortal Emperor of Mankind" special rule in both name and effect.

Allowing the use of nearly any Imperial force as allies to any other Imperial force (also allowing TL, rending flamers for SoB allies to Salamanders...)

"It's for your own good". Both in name and function, this is one of the awesomest rules!

"Always Hungry" from Blood Bowl is just a hilarious rule. Nothing like watching a troll eat his little goblin buddy that's holding the ball...

Not a rule, per se, but I love the requirement to take the Orbital Defense Laser, "The laser must have a pompous sounding name".

I also remember reading rules for a "Dreadnaught Battle Royal" where they had rules for Dreads body slamming other Dreads, and then rolling to see if they could stand back up. If they fail they roll around on the ground like an overturned turtle. Fun times.