Is the amount of bounty quests given by the Jarl's steward random? In previous playthroughs, I've gotten several from Proventus Avenicci, but with this current playthrough, I've just gotten the one from Riverwood. I turned the quest in and have gotten the reward, but there's no option to get more bounty quests from him or the inn keepers.

I have put off going to some dungeons, because I don't want a bounty quest to suddenly become available, and thus become broken if I've already slain the bandit leader, giant or dragon, who doesn't respawn later.

Try waiting a few days or talk to Hulda the Inn keeper,she will have bounty quest's also.

I'll try that. I thought I just had to either exit/re-enter Dragonsreach or leave Whiterun and come back after turning in a previous bounty.

I can't seem to get anything but rumors from Hulda. She did mention the Gildergreen, though she hasn't given me any bounties.

I'm just hoping that this part isn't somehow bugged for this playthrough, as I haven't had to wait this long for new bounties in the past. This is my first playthrough on PC and my only mod is the Unofficial Patch.

I had the same thing happen. It might be related to what uncompleted quests you have for that location and where you got them. For ex, I was given the objective to look into the Gildergreen, and I don't think she gave me any more bounties until I completed the Gildergreen quest or at least talked to the Priestess about it. I think certain objectives count in the same category for those purposes, so you can't get another until you complete the one you were given.

This happened to me too. I was doing Whiterun quests one after another, and after 3 or 4 it dried up. I went and did other things for a while, and when I checked with Hulda, she had another one for me.

HES THE NORD, THE BOUNTY NORRRD. THE BOUNTY HUNTAH!

The unofficial patch seems to block any bounties of the same type, if you've already got one in any of the holds.

Erm... what I'm trying to express here is that if you've got a "kill the bandit leader" bounty in, for example, Riften already, then you won't get a "kill the bandit leader" bounty anywhere else until you've finished that misc quest. You will, however, get bounties of other types while you've got that quest active already, meaning that you can have exactly one "kill the bandit leader", one "kill the giant", one "kill the dragon", and one "kill the forsworn leader" bounty active at all times.

That's how the game works by default, it's not the Unofficial Patch that is doing that. You can only have one type of radiant quest active at the same time. If you aren't getting more of them check your Misc quests tab, you probably have one active in another hold.

I don't have any other bounty quests active.

During my last playthrough, on xbox 360, I got 3 consecutive bounty quests from Whiterun to slay giants, all around Whiterun. Since the only thing different now is that I'm playing on pc, that's the only thing that I can think of, that's keeping me from getting more bounty quests.

I'm not far into this playthrough, and I've only gotten one bounty quest, which I've completed and have gotten the reward from. I've done several playthroughs, and haven't had to wait this long (~15 hours) for my second bounty before. My only other active misc. quests are to visit the College of Winterhold, visit the Shrine of Azura, etc. Nothing to go kill (random npc) at (random location).

I'll just keep at it. Perhaps Farkas will send me to these locations once I wrap up the Companions questline.

No. I could get plenty of "kill the bandit leader" quests active simultaneously before I applied the Unofficial Patch.

Interesting that there are so many ardent fans of those fetch quests and i thought everyone hated them.