I've got an old RPG* that used a special deck of cards to determine hit loc. Each card lists different locs for high, medium, and low melee attacks plus for ranged attacks and a special one for non-humanoid opponents, which has results like "wings (stomach)" meaning the creature's wings are hit if it's got any, else the stomach. It's clever in that it can handle quite different creatures with a single table.
(Something it doesn't handle well are creatures with more than four legs (six if you count wings).)
* It's called The Guide to Adventure and used to be available for free on the 'Net, but appears to've dropped of the edge of the earth.
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The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges - things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids - ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen.
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