While suggestions of preferred authoring tools are welcome, I am most interested in how to design role-plays in which the learner is one of the role-play participants. Thank you.
You can use roleplay software from hand multimedia.
Its a roleplay authoring tool using cloud and web base application.
It allow you to create or setup scenario and branching for possibility of user previous decision, can be develop at the same time with many people without coding and the important one is you can choose your audience.
This sounds great, Dony, though I cannot find any recent information about the product. I found reviews from 2011, but the website listed is a parked domain. I reached out to the company co-founder on LinkedIn. Meanwhile, can you tell me more about how you know about or use Roleplay? Thanks, Barb