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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 6379460" data-attributes="member: 1879">You know the tv show Avatar: the Last Airbender had that problem. By the end of the first season the party consisted of three of the most powerful benders (read wizard/elemental monks) in the world, plus Sokka, who was a teenage guy. He openly wondered about his role in the group and more than one episode was devoted to the question. They actually essentially went on a side quest to get him levels in a prestige class at one point. The actual answer was that he was indispensible due to party dynamics, but that is a writers solution and would be table dependent in play.Now in 5e they have a multi pronged fix to the problem.  The power of casters has been severly reigned in due to fewer high level slots, reduced save DCs and most importantly the concentration rules.Furthermore there are no mundane classes, only (5) mundane subclasses. The upshot of this is that the only reason to play a mundane character is because you want to play Sokka, or Samwise Gamgee. You are the voice of normality in a party of demi-gods, and your role in to ground the party in reality and remind them that not everyone is a caster/demigod/agent of fate. If you don't want to play that character, why did you? Conversely if someone does want to be Boromir in the same party as Gandalf, Legolas and Aragorn, why should he be compelled to play Hercules instead?</blockquote>