okay
Parodos quick summary, 0.53 (with replaced 0.54 CommonEvents.json)
replacing the file (CommonEvents.json) seems to fix the issues others had reported, i was able to play every quest, including seasonal events, without crashes or complaints about missing files.
however, playing a path without doing Hoblinas favour
reason, see above post (in order to keep Goblinette in the red book) revealed some unexpected behaviour, as in, Risky sex with Goblinette results in instant triggering 'child born' already when leaving the cave, the counter is skipped.
i did some trickery with toggling collisions, sneaking out of the cave through walls prevents the child event (avoided the toggle field) and then the counter works and i can trigger the child scene with re-entering the cave when the counter is finished.
in both cases, in the red book 'Goblette' is still visible, but without offspring. the summary of offsprings, however, increases.
i can't exactly say if that's a side effect of having the 'wrong' CommonEvents.json in place.