Reduce Merfolk swim speed

[Elitist]

Merfolk already have a wealth of incentive to dive into the water with interactions (boosted EV, a tail slap, stealth bonus) that make it a tactical boon, in addition to being able to swim already being a good passive. Why on Earth do they become Spriggans when they swim? They gain the ability to flee for very little cost and can use their polearms/throwing with impunity. They also swim at the same speed as a submerged hydra, which probably isn't good.

Make their speed 0.9 or (preferably) 1.0 AuTs. They're already a lot stronger than Tengu, they can deal with it.

Do not reduce non-PC Merfolk speed.

[le_nerd]

Please do not introduce different mechanisms (monster/player) for the same race.

[ONIchinchin]

The amount of water in this game is very scarce even if there's some. You don't see a single tile of water in Vaults where it's most needed. Pandemonium (except Lom Lobon's floor and Holy pan obviously. Even in Holy pan the water doesn't matter too much because the Seraph/main threat isn't there, you wouldn't want to fight the Seraph outside of the killhole corridor anyway even if there's one) and Zot has little to no spawnrates of water in them also. Slime has nothing, Tomb has nothing and Hell only has Cocytus and the occasional Tar:7 river (just like Holy pan, the water in that part doesn't matter). Dungeon, Lair, Abyss and Depths may have some number of them especially Depths but I'm sure we can all agree that dry floors/tiles still greatly and vastly outnumber water by a large margin. It'd be good if someone can provide exact numbers though so this point even if there may be discrepancies is further emphasized.

Swamp, Shoals and Cocytus and the Elf:3 castle with moats floor are the only real places a Merfolk can mostly utilize this advantage while the other places are just occasional bonus that loses its use immediately. And they kinda need it at the first 2 places because of their bad -3 armor aptitude.

[Elitist]

Please do not introduce different mechanisms (monster/player) for the same race.

Non-PC Gargoyles are mute and immune to negative energy as opposed to resistant and, you know, able to shout.
Non-PC Mummies move very slowly.
Non-PC Trolls attack with both their claws in addition to having a regular attack.
Non-PC Vampires have undead resistances while being able to regenerate, conflicting with how player Vampires function.
I'm not sure how much this matters, especially since the power of enemies wildly varies from the power of player characters.

[duvessa]

The gargoyle thing is really bad, and monster merfolk don't need to be fast in water.

[pratamawirya]

and monster merfolk don't need to be fast in water.

I completely support this. Moving at normal speed in water is a good enough advantage over most PC races.

[RBrandon]

Monster gargoyles break off a piece of themselves and throw it at players to end them rightly