Here's a review: http://www.rpgmusings.com/2012/10/mini-review-take-on-magic-items/

In the Sample Campaign Front, it looks like the Grim Portents are listed under the wrong Dangers.

That is, the Grim Portents for:
- the Dragon seem to be under the Magmin
- the Dragon Cultists' under the Dragon, and
- the Magmin's under the Dragon Cultists.

O, and this frickin' amazing brilliant work! Very helpful and tidy.

Yeah, recently the thief in my game decided to clamber across a thin goblin rope, 30 or 40 metres up, spanning the width of the large cavern; then he swung on to the Bloodstone Idol's crusty clay shoulders, looped a long length of rope around it's 8 metre clay neck and used his own body weight and pendulum force to slice the Bloodstone Idol's gigantic head clean off its shoulders.

I was a little incredulous at first but kept reminding myself how cool it would be if he pulled it off. So I didn't set a difficulty level or anything, I just asked lots of questions about how he was doing it and asked for few rolls, which in the end was more than enough. The last roll was a 7-9, and I offered the ugly choice of something in his pack shattering (and o man did he have some choice loot) or d6 damage from the fall. I knew he had 5 HP so I thought he might take the damage, and he did and rolled a 6.

He didn't go through the black gates but did come back a changed man. I thought it was pretty epic result in the end. A crazy idea, worked and paid for in full.

The constant risk in DW is that no matter what action you take, things could go very badly, very quickly. The difficulty is baked into the fiction, into the consequences of PC actions, both expected and unexpected. It's less a question of "Can I do this?" and more "What's it going to cost me to do this?".  

2) makes total sense. I never thought of dooms as fledgling fronts and that should help me deal with a Front that grows to big to handle.

1) I don't really get. I've never made a doom to directly target a PCs' bonds. Ask the player all sorts of questions, use their answers to find out what the PC wants and target that, sure. I'm just not seeing why you're emphasising questions about their bonds specifically. But maybe I'm misreading you.

I like the int, con, wis hack too

I see: both offensive and defensive actions can deal damage. Yeah, that's  makes sense. Thanks.

Defending yourself is certainly an option. It amounts to giving up on making attacks and just trying to keep yourself safe.

Reading the pre-release pdf and it struck me that "giving up on making attacks" could mean when you're defending yourself you can't pick  option 4: Deal damage to the attacker equal to your level. Is that right?