Guild Wars 2

just to clarify, If I create a new toon now, it will be missing some of the living story S2 episodes. But, I can redo the episodes on another character and create another backpeice and transfer them to the new toon later on because they are account bound correct? So, at least as of right now, a new toon can get all the benefits of this season, just without being able to play through it completely on that character correct?

Yes, you get the items again (if you used the items) and make multiple backpieces if you so desire.
The episode is account unlocked, only the progression of the steps are per character, but any current and future chars can play the episodes.

Yes you can transfer the items, but also, your new toon CAN play the Season 2 story line, if you unlocked a S2 episode, any toon you have and make have it unlocked.

Belzebu.3912:

Yes you can transfer the items, but also, your new toon CAN play the Season 2 story line, if you unlocked a S2 episode, any toon you have and make have it unlocked.

And you CAN get all the items again by redoing the story on the same chracter more than once?

Also, are episodes account unlocked or character unlocked? I guess I thought (maybe incorrectly) that you needed to login on each character during the time that episode is new (the 2 weeks or whatever it is) not just on 1 character in your account.

Thanks that clarified what I evidently misunderstood.

What exactly are the requirements to let you STACK them? It seems the base items you receive are NOT stack-able (and I have no idea why anyone thought this was anything but annoyingly inconvenient….).

You can’t stack the items, you can re-gain them.
After you consumed / destroyed the living story specific items (like Mysterious Seed for example), you gain it again after completing the corresponding LS step.