I had been looking for d12 with the months and hit locations for weeks through my local hobby store (Dragon’s Lair). They didn’t have any luck through their distributor after a few months so I resorted to the Internet thanks to a vendor in Canada called Advancing Hordes courtesy of enworld.org. Glad I did because the AH people had a better d12 of hit locations. The original one had 12 different locations but the better one went with a reduced number that is more “realistic;” torso is present four times which is more likely in a fight. Meanwhile, AH also offered two others I decided to purchase for their practical uses. The directional d8 is great for random directions and resolves the age-old “grenade” bounce rule by saying it lands in a direction from the target when the thrower misses. Since there’s no facing in D&D (or d20 Modern/Future/Past), I would go with the determination of where north is on the map. The other is a d30 with every letter of the (American English) alphabet on it with four “wild” markings. I hope to use it for passwords or random puzzles. No way should it be used for name generation, that’s so lame just like the make-your-own-Jedi-name crap; I prefer to use the Internet to look up real, historical/cultural names for my campaign. I am definitely looking forward to using the d12 hit location one when it’s my turn to DM again.
Impavidus Goldfrapp… heh heh.