Examples of 4e Combat

[Maz]

Originally Posted by mook

That's correct, and in my own games I don't bother rolling random hit location either (unless it truly would be random - as you say, I just default to torso unless another target is specified). However as I'm trying to keep, as much as possible, every single RAW option 'turned on', I figured I'd include the random Hit Location rolls too.

This is part of the 'RAW'.

Originally Posted by Basic p.398

Torso (0): [...] This is the default target for attacks: if you do not specify a hit location, you are attacking the torso.

See also the notes on "Completely unaimed attacks", on the same page but before the above quote. It states that use use the random hit locations for those type of attacks.