LadyLaw
First Post
As I said, I'd prefer a policy that MM races are always retired when PC races come out without any regard for the specific changes involved. And your post, and most of this thread, is a big reason why. I'd prefer to have a general policy than to have to debate the subjective merits of different versions each time this happens.
I suppose minotaur is weird in that we're apparently getting TWO new versions - Dragon and PH3. But even if Dragon versions of races might be questionable, I think the policy would definitely make sense for anything that comes in a Player's Handbook.
I have to agree with this. Once a player race is published in a Players Handbook, then it seems to me that it is the intention for that to replace any previous version (Dragon or otherwise) of the race for the purposes of PCs. However, I see no reason that race descriptions in the Monster Manual should not continue to be utilized by DMs as NPCs as that is their intended purpose.