u/GearaDoga39

Looking for some ways to help a pc be at least a little more resistant to Rotschreck than usual.
A player is wanting to join an ongoing game I'm running and his idea is to play a Nosferatu who's curse manifests as horrible burn scars. We workshopped it a bit and he decided that he was turned to save his life from a fire but the transformation didn't get rid of the burns (or even all of the pain).
Anyway part way through this I asked him if he felt like his character might be extra afraid of fire or maybe less so and he said he wanted if possible to be less afraid of fire and maybe use it in fights, sort of a turning his pain on others kind of thing.

So anyway I want to know if there's any merits or loresheets that help with the roll to avoid freaking out around fire, or if the best we can do for him is having him start with a high willpower. I thought I read a loresheet that talked about anarch fire poker duels that helped you resist it but I can't find that sheet back.

So there aren't really any Cosmere tied video games of course, but what games have you played that captured a bit of the feel of one or more of the settings?
I thought of this recently when trying out the game Atlas Fallen. In that game you skate around on the ground to move quickly, you summon weapons out of thin air to fight, you control sand for most of your abilities, and the overall armor aesthetic isn't horribly far off from shardplate. Your helmet even retracts for cutscenes and conversations. Multiple times I felt like I was playing some kind of weird Radiant who also had sand mastery.

Any other games touch themes/styles that wouldn't look out of place in a Cosmere book?

So I've grown to trust "it came to me in a dream" when it comes to formulating ideas for GMing and this idea literally did, but I'm not sure the full implications of it.
See it was a villainous npc wearing shardplate that was merged together from two different shardplates at one point, meaning among other things it's two different colors at different points. In my literal dream it was red and blue but...that sounds a little clownish and unintimidating to envision on the "real" version of this dude.
Thing is, with how shardplate works and regenerates when fed stormlight, I'm not sure how this thing would come about, or the further implications of being formed of two different types of spren. I imagine it would be torturous to them, which tbf would add to the npc's villainy some. More importantly I'm not intending this to be "Better shardplate" if anything I'm wanting it to be worse shardplate, or at least cursed/evil shardplate. Maybe it screams at you like dead shardblades do.

My intent/idea is that it came about out of desperation not trying to make something cool, maybe someone needed shardplate literally immediately and didn't have the time or stormlight to mend their broken one, so they used salvaged chunks of another suit instead. Making something fundamentally worse but functional in that desperate moment, and paying for it in the long run.

Right now this guy in my head will eventually develop radiant powers and have to flee mid-fight as his gear suddenly starts screaming at him, only to come back a bit unhinged because he decided to just get used to it instead of just ditching the stuff. A work in progress.

Lastly I'm trying to avoid "It just wouldn't work", since I recognize that's probably the most likely answer. I'd like to make it make sense.