Origin of DKP

By wow_joi
May 20th, 2006 @ 12:33 PM Jargon

Dragon Kill Points or DKP is used to keep track of participation and contribution in raids and is used to distribute loot “fairly”. I always knew it came from Everquest, but Rob Pardo told me that it was originally created by, Thott, the GM of Afterlife. In case you were wondering…

6 Comments so far

  1. sean bonner (unregistered) on May 20th, 2006 @ 12:54 pm

    guess we know the origin of “thottbot” know too?


  2. Joi Ito (unregistered) on May 20th, 2006 @ 12:57 pm

    Yes, actually I think he started Thottbot.


  3. Joi Ito (unregistered) on May 20th, 2006 @ 12:59 pm

    Here is the WoWWiki page on Thott


  4. wha (unregistered) on May 22nd, 2006 @ 9:10 am

    LOL no. DKP (or something very similiar but with a different name) has been around since the time of muds, literally decades ago.


  5. Jonas M Luster (unregistered) on May 22nd, 2006 @ 10:11 pm

    Wha is correct. Afterlife (one of the bigger EQ guilds) took Diku’s point system and made it DKP.


  6. Joi Ito (unregistered) on May 22nd, 2006 @ 10:45 pm

    O. It is correct that it wasn’t called DKP until Afterlife then right?



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