[RPG] Can a “find steed”-sourced mount actually talk to you (telepathically)

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I found a lot of questions discussing how a find steed-sourced mount works in combat due to its intelligence and ability to communicate with you, but what does that mean outside of combat?

Your mount can understand a language you speak, and communicate with you telepathically, but what does this communication actually look like? Does it just pass on vague images and emotions, and you just guess what it's trying to tell you, or can it actually talk, albeit a bit simple in dialogue?

For example, let's say my summoned horse watches a man steal from a shop. I want the horse to describe the man. Will I get mental images of the man, or will the horse telepathically say the man was wearing a red shirt and had a ponytail and ran up Grove Street, or will I get "Man… red… street."

I'm looking for an official ruling on the matter, or at the very least very good reasoning as to why it should work one way over another.

Best Answer

Yes, communication is both ways (as of November 2018)

This has been established via the November 2018 Player's Handbook Errata:

Find Steed (p. 240). In the next-to-last paragraph, “communicate with it” is now “communicate with each other.”

The old wording used to read:

While your steed is within 1 mile of you, you can communicate with it telepathically.

Which has now been changed to "with each other" by RAW.