Do Merfolk become dehydrated if they are out of the water too long?

Why don't they use a trident? They're, like, the ONE monster who'd have a reason to use one, haha

I want to get I to D&D and I want my first character to be an arctic mermaid.  Hiw do I build a character?

I thinks so

These are a good monster or player race for underwear campaigns

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If they were a playable race, I'd make it so that they could have the power or magic to transform their tails into legs, although I'm unsure as to whether or not that'd be too OP. Maybe make the transformation temporary but then that'd be a hassle of a character to run.

 That will be a cool thing to add for a player race maybe it’s like the fish player race I forgot the name of and you just need to take a short or long rest while submerged in water to get the ability back

Why are they so weak 

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Can you play merfolk?

 It’s a popular race to home brew, great for an undersea camp.

But, the problem is that they are barely functional in the terrestrial environment all the standard races are meat for.  Triton is a more practical option.

 Mmm. Meat.

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at least it is better than  a frog

 Get out

Not to my awareness

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pigs(boar) have an int of 2, merfolk have an int of 11 their different

 It's so dumb how dnd give ALL THE VERY INTELLGINT ANIMALS LOW INT STATS, PIGS CAN ACTUALLY BE TAUGHT TO PLAY A SIMPLE VIDEO GAME, also cats should have an 18in charisma

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at least it is better than  a frog

 did one of you guys seriously played a fkn frog

as a DM, i'm not disappointed.