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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrozenNorth" data-source="post: 8748968" data-attributes="member: 7020832">From a DM side, it becomes more of a challenge designing an adventure or a dungeon that gives everybody an opportunity to shine while trying not to impact player agency or verisimilitude.From a player side, no one appreciates their niche being stepped on.Most of the examples have a wizard on their own overshadowing the fighter.  In practice, what you are more likely to see is a party characters that end up making the fighter feel redundant.  To harken back to [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER] example of 6-8 combat encounters per day, suppose you have a party that is made up of a fighter, cleric, wizard and valor bard.  They run through 6-8 combats encounters before resting.  The wizard uses Web, Banishment and Fireball to trivialize three of them.  The Valor Bard trivializes another two with Eyebite and Hypnotic Pattern.  The Trickery Cleric trivializes another encounter with Polymorph.  The last two encounters are bypassed by the Wizard and the Bard each casting Dimension Door.  The fighter ends the day having contributed very little, and all three casters still have a large number of spells left over.</blockquote>