Remove their innate resist magic. Duergar and dwarves have this already. If anything, elves and dark-elves should have this sort of thing. Svirfs have it "just because." It doesn't make sense, and looking at the helpfile does nothing to clarify it. If this were gone they would STILL be a hugely popular rager race.


I mean look at their PROS:
Resist Magic, Poison, Disease. Inherent Stoneskin. Each and every one of those is a big deal. Vuln? Blunt. Like gnomes, sure, but they have stoneskin and (90% of the time) rager resist going for them.