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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6319039" data-attributes="member: 42582">I have played D&D (B/X, AD&D, 2nd ed AD&D, 4e) with quite a few different people since the early 80s. I've done plenty of mapping (or seen it done) but have never encountered the use of a caller, or had it suggested by another participant that we should use one. I think the caller really went out of fashion very quickly (especially, as [MENTION=3586]MerricB[/MENTION] notes, because many groups weren't all that big).Since the early 90s, though, at least in my own campaigns, mapping has been confined to sketch or line maps (if anything at all) so the players can have a general sense of the layout of an area. No graph paper mapping has taken place for a long time.My group uses a party treasurer. The player's PC is a dwarf fighter Eternal Defender with a Handy Haversack, and so has an encumbrance limit probably equal to the rest of the party's put together, or more. So in game the PC is carrying all the treasure, and in the real world that player is meant to record it and keep track of distributing it from time to time. (I'm pretty sure errors are made and records not kept of everything they find. This would be a pretty big deal in more classic D&D play, but isn't such a big deal in 4e, especially when most "treasure" is in the form of GM-awarded item power-ups.)</blockquote>