Zardnaar
Legend
Holy crap. Did you just say that the staff of award-winning companies like Green Ronin, Frog God, Kobold Press, and Sasquatch aren't professional game designers?
Did you know that these companies include people who have been writing professionally for D&D for longer than WotC has even existed? That they are the very definition of professionals?
LOL yeah.
I think Wolfgang Bauer wrote for TSR before WoTC existed.