But, Ollie, what held me back from doing that is, I personally believe people tend to bog down after getting a vanilla role and on top of that if I informed them about their bodyguard nature, they would hardly bother.
That's why I was thinking, that say they 'protect' the player whilst being killed at night there win condition could be such that they are given an 'honourable win' by saving the character.
I thought the idea in HP mafia, was brilliant because not only was it a very good game of Mafia, but it also went along with the whole Harry Potter storyline, so much so that didn't it actually end up with Harry and Voldemort at the end?