Bought the game a few days ago, and have had a lot of fun with it, going into it with absolute no knowledge about anything, so have had to learn everything as we go. A lot of new stuff... However, I'm a little concerned I've done the Raedric quest in an odd way, and possibly broken it.

Like often is the case, I like to wander back and forth and gather more information.

Kolsc asked me to take out Raedric.
I went to Raedric's Hold (snuck in the bottom way, after seeing some guards up top, and going back down)
Let Giacco go (wasn't quite sure who he was)
Talked to Osrya
Talked to Nedmar
Talked to Raedric (this may have been later in the sequence)
Talked to Osrya
Went back and killed Nedmar
Talked to Osrya, nothing new really
Talked to Raedric. Lots of talking, and eventually I agreed to help him out, at least by words. Not like we could walk away from him in peace at that point.
By that, I got some quest XP rewards
Found Kolsc and talked to him. Said I'd go and kill Raedric (he seems like the worst of two bad apples, killing his wife and all, and I don't much fancy the guy's god)
Located a nutter Priest, and picked him up.
Went back to Raedric (at this point we can waltze around the castle at will).
Tried to kill him, but we all got wiped (level 4).

Don't particularly want to re-do a whole heap of that, so think I'll try the very tough Raedric fight again (maybe putting out some traps could help). But I have noticed that the journal is a little odd. It has moved on to "Meet with Kolsc", but then updating an 'old' entry about talking to Raedric or something like that, for instance when I killed Nedmar. And then there was the XP reward early on. If I do manage to kill Raedric, will the game behave in an odd way? I hope not.

A lot of fun so far, but I do find it odd that we essentially don't get XP for killing enemies.

I'm a Wizard btw, so two low level wizards are probably making things a bit rough.

I'm playing at Normal difficulty setting, so that could be why I struggled more (or because I suck :D).

Tried again, and managed to beat them now (but with only 2 of 5 guys standing). The journal entry still looks messed up, but there was a scene played when Kolsc entered the castle, and we got more XP, so it looks like things worked out OK in the end.

Biography and Visions don't update at all in the Journal, but I searched a little and apparently there is a bug with that on 3.02 games, which I started with. Should be fixed in 3.03, but who knows when that will be out, and it may not get fixed for current saves anyway. So far after release, I had hoped there wouldn't be bugs of this type left in the game.