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If you start a quest involving a random book (say, commoners quest A0C00Y12), the book picked is always "The First Scroll of Baan Dar".
Given it's book ID 0 in books.txt, I suspect quests to not fully initialize all the fields of the books they generate.

It seems that even random loot books are "The First Scroll of Baar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jZB0arUJT4&t=745
or he's been very unlucky

(PS I think that was just luck)

I have noticed this. It seems the system stops looking after i finds the first scroll.

I think this stuff ain't working right yet, I figure they know about it but they're doing other stuff, like maybe lycanthropy

Hey man it's possible....

pango wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:29 am It seems that even random loot books are "The First Scroll of Baar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jZB0arUJT4&t=745
or he's been very unlucky

(PS I think that was just luck)

With the most recent builds I've found books as loot that aren't The First Scroll of Baan Dar. However, as a quest reward I believe it will always be that book.

I, too, have encountered an unlikely number of editions of "The First Scroll of Baan Dar" in quests, dungeons, containers, et cetera, in the Win_x64_0.7.91 version.

Wardrobe_w_2_BaanDar_SAVE38.7z
Load this save and look in the wardrobe directly ahead. Verify two books both named "The First Scroll of Baan Dar".

TheRiddle_pt2_BaanDar_SAVE39.7z
Load this save and look in the inventory. Verify "The First Scroll of Baan Dar" is a quest item for the second part of The Riddle.

Wardrobe_w_4_BaanDar_SAVE58.7z
Load this save and look in the wardrobe directly ahead. Verify four books all named "The First Scroll of Baan Dar".

Is every single book you encounter "The First Scroll of Baan Dar", or is it just common? (This is a question to anyone with this issue)

If you open the console and type "add book" what does it give you?

I'm getting random books with the console command and in treasure.

In my experience, books created for quests are always "The First Scroll of Baar".

Books in loot seem random, at least I've seen other books in loot.
"add book n" console works fine and generates random books (mmmh just created one "Book by %ba[nullMCP]", but that's another issue).
The problem must be that quest generator does not use the same code.

I just pushed a fix for quest reward books.

If random loot is okay now, as it seems to be, then I think we can close this after the fix is merged.

If random loot includes containers in buildings in towns, I would say that may also need to be examined.

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