Are Heresy devils supposed to lack Common and telepathy?

[Kain Darkwind]

As the thread title. I was formatting their stats for pb2 boards, since i like to tinker and having a mass of preformatted base stats helps. I noticed the Heresy Devil does not speak Common and lacks telepathy. Is that intentional or oversight?

[VRMH]

Telepathy is, as I recall, part of the Devil subtype. But they do indeed seem to lack a knowledge of Common.

[Kain Darkwind]

VRMH wrote:

Telepathy is, as I recall, part of the Devil subtype. But they do indeed seem to lack a knowledge of Common.

It is, but it is also located in the language block of every single other devil.

It just seems strange that they cannot communicate with humans unless those humans make an effort to.

[captain yesterday]

Pretty sure it's a typo then.

[Avoron]

Telepathy does come with the subtype, and all devils should have telepathy of a certain range in their statblocks. The only other exceptions in any bestiaries are either mindless (lemures) or specifically described as lacking it (imps). There are a few devils from adventure paths without it, such as chortovs and possession devils, but those are probably typos. It should be more or less universal.

That said, Heresy Devils can always just summon a couple of imps to serve as translators for devilish shenanigans.