This is not a big deal, as it involves a minor quest, but it's annoying and I don't remember this NOT working in the old physical version I had years ago.

I'm talking about the "Book Return" quest in Glacern in DS1. The quest giver is supposed to give you a book and that unlocks additional dialog from two other NPCs that allows you to complete the quest. I didn't remember details from this because it's been years.

I accepted the quest, but couldn't remember which NPCs, talked to every one in the town... and none have any dialog related to the quest. A Google search reminded me that the quest giver is supposed to actually give you a book in inventory, but he didn't. Neither is it lying on the ground (my inventory was empty when I accepted the quest, one would assume the book would go into inventory otherwise). I still have every book I've found in the game up to this point, and I would not have sold one intentionally or accidentally.

I reloaded a save from before arriving in Glacern to see if the quest would proceed after getting the book... and didn't get the book again.

As I said, I don't remember this being bugged years ago. Was this bug somehow introduced to this version of the game? Was it in the original game but patched with Legends of Aranna? I'm assuming there is no way to get this to proceed using the console, which seems intended only for cheat codes.

I'm worried that if one quest is bugged there may be more. Anyone else having problems like this?