The area covered in SCAG is ~5 million square miles, larger than Europe at least. We broke the math down on the board somewhere a few years back. Are you using the 3E era smaller Faerun for reference...? 5E FR has a much larger continent because of reboot Shennanins.
George Lichas doesn't understand Star Wars or Indiana Jones and what makes them tick. Weird, but true. That does jive with my own experience with creative art, though: making it ≠ understanding it.
The Poet and the Critic have different jobs. Every once in a blue moon you get a T.S. Eliot or an Allen Tate, but it’s rare.
I think Lucas is like a chef. Usually you want dishes to be fairly simple. The more things you put into the dish, the more muddled it gets as a concept and harder it is to do well. A lot of good chefs will continue to modify good dishes trying to make them better, but end up putting too much into them and making them worse.
If that was a typo, it was the best one ever.
Mostly agree, but in all honestly it isn't that bad. We're running our first campaign and we only have to flip books open a couple times a session; most issues can just be jotted down and looked up later. Also, most of the crunchy math is done upfront, so when you go to roll you're just juggling a few +1s.
What shenanigans? When I look at new and older maps, everything looks like it's the same scale and I see nothing in the 5e Sword Coast book to suggest that it takes months to walk from Waterdeep to Baldur's Gate
1E, 2E, and 5E have one map scale, and 3E/4E have another. In 3E, they shrank Faerun to make travel times less onerous, so a party could reasonably travel back and forth, whereas with 5E they returned to Greenwood's absurdly huge continent.
The below link suggests 750 miles of travel:
www.dndbeyond.com
