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the answer is always "Do it" if it is within the rules

-never target an opponent's newest model.
-Don't use invisibility in casual play. That's just a move.
-Don't call the units "spess mehreens", "dork angels", "elves in SPESS!", etc. more than once.
-never criticize another player's army without them asking you to
-don't roll your dice at an opponent's units
-and lastly, never, EVER use multiple FMC in a <1000p game

 The Internet is for Khorn wrote:
-never target an opponent's newest model.

Unless it is painted, thn its fair game.
C'mon, its in the BRB, the newly painted model must die first.

I think the first and most important rule in any form of face-to-face gaming is, be cool.

People you actually enjoy playing against win lose or draw can be hard to find and you won't know if someone's going to be one until you've played them - and when you do find them, wouldn't you prefer it if they'd gladly set their army up opposite yours again any day?

So before all else, be cool.

For me the big one is:

-It's a game. No feelings should be hurt.
-If someone is playing at my house, offer them a beer.
-Laugh and enjoy the game.
-Compliment and be enthusiastic about someones unique play style, don't critique someone because they aren't running a "tournament list"

Melevolence wrote:

3. To never 'take back' a bad move, or to retroactively perform something I missed that could be potentially beneficial to myself (such as saves of some kind). One cannot learn to remember these things on their own if they do not suffer the consequences. (And as such, I forget far less than ever before)
4. To never touch my opponents models unless given permission to do so. It is not my property, I have zero right to touch it without their say.

For #3 it depends how it's caught for me. I remember reminding one of my opponents he forgot to do something on his turn, even though doing so put me at a disadvantage (it was a reroll to pen a Battlewagon). In the end my battlewagon blew up, but I thought it was at least the sporting thing to do was to let him know that he could trust me that I'm not trying to angle for a win.

Can't say that about my opponent after though. Spent more time on his phone near the last two turns of our game on his phone checking out the Ork FAQ than he was worried about playing. Despite the fact he was indeed winning, he was 100% certain that the ramshackle table was FAQ'd out in 6ed. He's terrible for knowing his own book, let alone it was annoying enough he spent tons of time trying to find a way to get out of my ramshackle table. I understand if there's a confusion, but if I say that "no it wasn't FAQ'd out"; usually I mean it. Lo and behold, the trukk explodes anyways.

#4 is a big one for me too. I'll occasionally ask another player to help me pack my Orks as I'm usually forty or so models more than they have. But unless the other guy says so, or he's a good friend of mine, I'm not touching their models. Some people though just grab willy nilly. I asked politely one player not to grab my models off the table once. My Kommando's just got liquidated by the IG mortar tank thing, and he just proceeded to grab all six of them in his one ham hand and put them in my bin. Uh, I know they're Orks; but I'd rather not have to glue them back together because some other dude with his meat hooks tossed my orks in a bin.