D&D 5E Mike Mearls on D&D (New Interview with James Introcaso)

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Non it really doesn't, too much changed with both the Spellplague and Sundering, too much become invalidated, it's not like everything got reset to 3e, the Spellplague still happened, so the 3e books are historical documents at best, they say nothing about current events. 4e is outdated too, the poorly detailed Sundering changed a ton of things, it caused a second, smaller time jump as well. So 4e material is just a historical documents, they say nothing about current events.

The SCAG is too sparce outside of the Sword Coast Region to offering anything, but showing how outdated the 3e/4e books really are, but it fills in far to few of the blanks.

VGTM is a deceitfully mislabeled product that pretends to be a Forgotten Realms product, but is in fact extremely light on Forgotten Realms content.

So Chris Perkin's is 100% wrong.

Except you equate edition with time period. They don't have to be the same.

You can set a 5E campaign in the time period outlined in the 1e FR box set etc.