Journal is blank under Active Quests and All Quests

[SeaGtGruff]

I'm doing an on-again-off-again re-playthrough of Morrowind, and decided to refer to the Journal to keep better track of my quests. However, the Journal is completely blank for All Quests and Active Quests, despite the fact that I have several active quests right now.

I did complete some of my outstanding quests by going back to Balmora to resume some questlines there and realizing I hadn't killed all of the cave rats or finished the bloodbath yet, but it would be nice to have a working journal so I don't have to rely on my poor memory, especially now that I've got a lot more concurrent quests, some of which are from different people within the same faction.

I tried searching the wiki for any information about known issues with the Journal, but couldn't find anything, possibly because I can't come up with search criteria that don't return a ton of irrelevant hits.

Does anyone have any insights into this issue?

[sabinscabin]

it's because you don't have Tribunal turned on. You need to enable the Tribunal data file; that will give you the journal entries.

[SeaGtGruff]

Thank you for that reply! You're correct; I've got all of the expansions turned off because I want to play through the original game before enabling the additional content. I guess I've got to decide which is more important to me-- being able to fully use the quest journal or not having quests from the add-ons pop up in the game until I'm ready for them.

[legoless]

Thank you for that reply! You're correct; I've got all of the expansions turned off because I want to play through the original game before enabling the additional content. I guess I've got to decide which is more important to me-- being able to fully use the quest journal or not having quests from the add-ons pop up in the game until I'm ready for them.

Why not both? The Expansion Delay mod achieves this while maintaining the journal functionality introduced in Tribunal:
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/47588

I've never used it personally but it's quite popular.

[SeaGtGruff]

I'll have to look into that! I've never used any mods with TES games, but that one might be too good to pass up.