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WFRP has winds of magic blowing from warp portals at the poles and a moon made of warpstone sometimes crumbling on earth

Very clear. Got it.

Yes, a big part, in my experience. Metagame, as in OOC at the table (right?), I've seen the biggest issues: from the very session zero, not allowing backgrounds, for instance, or completely negating them in session one; to outright blocking declarations, also OOC; to putting forth more and more...

What do you exactly mean by that?

I'm gonna point out also Elfs, from Edwards, with its humourous take on actor/author stances right in the stats on char sheets of those little, pranky elfs.

Sounds reasonable, but I think the premise is misplaced. The wife affair is not something to ritually hear about once in a while to make the husband player happy at the expense of the party's ears; it something to be challenged, put up in play, that should promote action, decisions, eventually...

It is fascinating the convoluted, shifting, refining process of game design by Baker, looking at his games in chronological order

You are very right. Also, re-reading your previous post, I agree with you. I conflated your answer to the post you quoted, my bad. What I meant is that I don't like a full random resolution (like a d100: pass/fail), same as you don't like a lack of randomness in a sequence of choices, as per...

Yes, but it's not a straight randomizer. The Player has to choose from his hand, which in turn changes the deck.

Googling: In franciscan christian prayers are involved twelve trees surrounding the tree of life of the Scriptures. The Sun can sometimes appear as a green spot for a second or two as it is rising or setting: this is known as green flash. Roughly speaking, the red light from the Sun is...

Random, or uncertain? The sistem of the OP looks more like the latter, at a first glance

Nice and easy. What is missing are the roleplaying bits, I mean descriptions that change a bit the situation, the fiction, as you pull cards. I suggest that the Gm (if there is one...) narrates the success cards: meaning how the PC gets closer to the goal; the player narrates the failure cards...

I like the combat stuff. Not so much the above skill check; seems flat, like not as tactical as combat, and just a card randomizer. I suggest adding some more choice and will to risk, a gamble of sorts, ala black jack.

Reminds me of Dominion the boardgame

Isn't railroad a general term for a playstyle, more than the continuous use of Gm force? Like running a railroady adventure without using Force, or a sandboxy one actually using it in every encounter, but not limiting otherwise the direction of the exploration in more general terms?

Moreover, in a videogame a Player does manage a team, in all its minutia. The match itself could be resolved by actually playing it, or just skipping to results by the AI.

@Hussar I get your point, but it is always tricky with metaphors. Say "the game" is not actually baseball, which could be Just a metaphor for the combat rules in dnd , instead, and the real game is owning & managing a team. Now you have perfect procedures for combat/matches, but no one tells...

I am actually running the Adventure Present in the Core book of Trail of cthulhu so Yes I believe I Can Play an RPG Simply as Written on the manual Edit: of course there are instructions on how to create your own adventures.

Could you read the rules for baseball and recreate a historical match of the Past?

Regarding the baseball metaphor, to me it best represents a single game, say, D&D. I started this hobby, back then, attending actual tournaments of D&D. Then we went home and played dnd/baseball in our basement/backyard, with houserules and homebrew campaigns/amateur tournaments, whatever...