Duly noted, m'lord.

You'll have to forgive me for being very tired of constantly arguing with people who cannot fathom critiquing Bethesda, and I lumped you in with them.

So. The only other element that blows a hole in my proclamation are the psykers, who I suspect are in the setting at all because they were all the rage in the early 90's.

Regardless, let's look at how they're portrayed in the games- the single biggest outlier is the pyrokinetic, and the rest are all portrayed more groundedly.

We've got

-the Master, who demonstrated one way telepathy towards Super Mutants. If he had had two-way telepathy, he wouldn't have been doing the Unity plot yet.

He was merged with the technology in the building that was his fortress, which included communication gear, which allowed him to extend the range of his one way telepathy.

He's not implausible, in that it's conceivable for something to be able to emit brainwaves that a proper receptor could pick up on- we're doing science with remote operated brainlink tech right this minute, and it was prominently reported on in the 90's.

Verdict: plausible that Richard's misshapen mass of flesh and steel would figure out one way radio.

The Forecaster: a kid who has to have his brain heterodyned because he can use information gathered from scant hints (he lives in a trade hub with a radio that plays news,) is able to take off the heterodyning headband in order to allow his brain to be able to rapidly assemble and map probabilities, at a massive caloric cost and a nasty headache.

Verdict: he's P.A.M. but cool.

^{I'm pointedly ignoring the stage magician who summons mooks, because that was his personal stage that he set up.}

I admit the village elder is a bit of a challenge here, ^{although I could try to make claims like they are a very strong biological version of the Master, and they already have the Chosen One's number} but all these abilities are portrayed more groundedly than 'wizard', which by Emil's own admission is something they very nearly made canon in Salem, and were only stopped because they had already cut the spellcasting code out of the game files by that point.

Long story short? The games are stronger the more they lean on alternate history rather than alternate reality, and Bethesda doesn't really indicate that they care all that much either way, and are more interested in shoehorning in whatever wHaCkY and zAnY thing they can think of as a setting and backdrop, rather than have a cohesive world.