i seriously need help. are there psionics in middle earth?

[Jakathi]

outside of mindlink, i don't really know. please help. is it feasible? what would the rules be?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

You don't have to post this every few minutes...

As for the topic. Nope, not at all. The Mindlink the Elves have is Magic...and Tolkien would have told us if it was Psionic.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Short answer: No psionics.

Long answer: Psionics isn't mentioned in Middle Earth literature, probably because Tolkien didn't think about it.

He wouldn't tell us if something was psionic, since he wasn't using it.

You could probably add it to Middle Earth, as long as you realize it's not in any of the official sources - this means the elven mindlink wouldn't be psionic. (Indeed, don't bother giving elves psionics at all. Not only do they have enough power already, but by DnD tradition they aren't all that good at psionics.)

 

[Faraer]

The hard distinction between wizard magic, cleric magic, and psionics was invented by D&D, anyway.

 

[Jakathi]

ahh. so stuff like psychokinesis would be within the realm of possibilities

it'd just seem wierd to them that the character wasn't muttering something under their breath (i.e: bibbiti bobbity boo, i summon u.)

 

[Endur]

If you want them to have psionics, they have psionics.

A lot of the magical supernatural things that Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel, and Aragorn did could have been psionic in origin.

Magic in Middle Earth is very different from Magic in D&D.

 

[Tsyr]

it'd just seem wierd to them that the character wasn't muttering something under their breath (i.e: bibbiti bobbity boo, i summon u.)

The concept of magic requring wierd dances and chants, while hardly unique to DnD or even all that original, is not universal.

 

[Jeph]

Psionics are simply magic by any other name. Call it what you will.

 

[Oni]

hurm...The word psionics has a lot of baggage.

 

[s/LaSH]

Ahem: Beorn.

I think a (heavily renamed) psionics system would serve him and his kind quite well. Despite the fact that they're based on old Viking saga (shapeshifters and berserks were quite clearly defined as different; one of 'em changed shape, the other was immune to steel), the concepts serve very well if you don't want to throw out lycanthropy templates right off the bat.

But change the name. It's not psionics in ME.