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I didn't see the survey. What did it ask?

Like, how long? "Sailing to a new continent on Earth" long? "You might as well keep all the action on one planet because there's no way to get to a different solar system within a reasonable human lifetime" long?

Like the thread on fantasy I started earlier, only for science-fiction. I want to see more settings based around bypassing outer space, even though world-hopping is a possibility. Stargates are one example, with interdimensional travel being another. Reason: I don't care for outer space all...

From anecdotal experience, I'd say it's a popular take.

I think I've experienced it, to a certain extent: I like action, and combat is a good way to get action. But I'm not interested in deadly/injurious combat, just people getting knocked around. And then sometimes I want no combat at all. Rather than search out specific games to do specific...

I want a hyena one. Hyenas need more good press!

I was making a joke about the intersection of Monty Python and D&D in geek humor. I mean, with all the "Gotcha!" monsters in the game, you'd think the early designers would have jumped at a man-killing rabbit. The closest I can come up with is the Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing.

The fact that D&D doesn't have man-eating rabbits as a classic monster is an affront to Monty Python.

I chose only two, because one of my three would be gnolls yet apparently they aren't an official D&D option yet.

Maybe we need more fantasy settings designed with physical realities more approximating mythology?

Or the gods need to be made not "god of thing X everywhere" but "god of thing X in this region where they're worshiped. Would lead to interesting implications like having a region that's perpetual night because long ago its sun god was killed, but the death not affecting the entire world.

Also, I'm not pointing these things out because I think people should be able to write them. I'm pointing them out because they fit in with the observation I once read about nations in these kinds of settings often being large because Americans are used to lots of distance between things.

My bad: I couldn't figure out how to express what they didn't know.

Include "food production and transportation" as yet another sign that Forgotten Realms was designed by modern Americans with little other knowledge of history.

Preferably ones not based off Greek or Norse gods.

I'm not terribly comfortable with a game defining morality at me. I like Black-and-White morality just fine, but I like it as a genre trope rather than a defined system.

More religions based on ideas other than pseudo-polytheism/henotheism. There may be quite a number of these around and I'm just not noticing. But I feel like there could be more.

I'm definitely going to agree on Soul Anchor.

Though in that case it's often because it doesn't fit and not because people find the word itself offensive or appropriative. (Though I could be wrong.)

Soul Link. It's not a container, it just draws a lich's soul to it and holds on to it.