Cam Banks
Adventurer
I stand corrected!
Well, we've had civilized minotaurs in D&D since Dragonlance, so not sure what yer getting at? And lots of folk homebrewed "civilized" minotaurs before or after that.
3rd ed screwed up minotaurs and some other races with the horrible racial hit dice and ECL stuff, ick. (The racial hit dice in particular was bad.)
I'm not talking about Savage Species minotaurs. Our Dragonlance minotaurs were a +0 ECL race. Pushed the envelope a little, but it was there.
What I was getting at is that having minotaurs provided in the PHB3 is not an indication that suddenly 4E is into the civilized minotaur schtick. They have had that in play since the MM came out with 4E's release. It's something they want to put up front now for minotaurs, as opposed to treating them like monsters in previous edition core rules.
Cheers,
Cam