Brown Mushrooms are one of the best foods for long trips. They provide one of the highest regeneration seconds per ounce eaten, making them very useful to mages in hunting places without food. These are not only lighter than white mushrooms, but heal more per gp spent buying them, so its not only more efficcient, but more cost effective to spend the same gp on these as you would on white mushrooms. Also it's the best food obtainable in a shop. 100 brown mushrooms weigh 20 oz. and will last you 7 h 20m. Because of its low weight, they are useful for training.
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