Targeting specific locations, difficulty and fairness issues

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Kromm

random hits are on the whole a wash . . . they hinder the attacker as often as they help him, and are in no way a uniformly "free" advantage.

Tactically speaking, in a lethal fight, cutting damage is almost always useful regardless of location (assuming relatively similar DR on all locations). Given a choice between targeting the torso, and targeting randomly with a decent chance of inflicting a fight-ending blow (crippling blows are also major wounds, for instance) I find that with a cutting weapon random location is often the best option.