I'm never sure when to award fame or which traits go on a card. Looking at some of the previous cards I'm not sure what sort of unwritten rules have been established.

For instance my Twisted Time card guarantees a possibility of getting food - you can always eat a meal in reverse resulting in throwing up a pristine meal ready for your enjoyment. It's also possible to cause a paradox (by doing something differently to how you saw your future self do it moments ago) which results in some completely random gain and pain cards. So it's possible to get any sort of gain out of the encounter, but not reliably. Should it have the "food" or the "gain any" trait? I could give it both, but the add every trait that might apply approach will lead to cards with seven or eight traits.

With fame, I'm never sure if you get fame for being a Big Damn Hero (tm) or for doing things that would make you famous. For instance making statues will generate fame in the core cards, but so will doing heroic things while nobody is watching. At the moment I'm taking a realism appraoch and giving fame awards for things that would make you (in)famous, but that has some strange side effects. For instance at the moment successfully stealing an object to start a fight in "Shrinking Child" awards no fame because if it works, nobody knows you did it. Failing and getting caught gives a small fame bump. It seems odd to reward failure in this way, but on the other hand the prize for getting it right is solidly better and it'd reward mastery for a player to know to screw it up if they really really needed fame and not any of the other possible rewards.