Oh god. A Murshroom Kingdom campaign. Brb, we're gonna play as plumbers RIGHT NOW.
Glad you're enjoying the book - and once again, thank you for your insights! We've been discussing the statistics you mentioned and workshopping some options for our planned big update! One of the ideas we're toying with is having 3 Difficulty Settings: Standard, which is the way the book is written currently; Hard Mode, which would set the minimum Fear Rating to 3 instead of 1; and Nightmare Mode, which would set the minimum Fear Rating to 5!
We will be discussing more options, but your reply did give us a lot to consider! :)