Help with Special FX: Targeting using the text options

I was wondering if there's a text command that allows me to pick any point on the map for using a special effect. The text commands on the Text Chat wiki page all require tokens as targets. It would be helpful if I could use FX through macros without having to select a token target. Is this possible?

No, not generally. An API script could be written for that, but the basic engine used by the chat pane can only use selected/targeted tokens.

You could use invisible tokens in the places you want the fx on your map.

Not with a chat text or macro command (unless you use API), but using the FX Tool you can point and click any place on a page including not-on-tokens,

Wiki docs for this,
https://wiki.roll20.net/Toolbox_Overview

As Brian mentioned you can use Selected token for some of the FX, the ones like Burn or Glow or Nova that don't require a Target if there is a Selected. (Compare with FX like Beam or Missile that needs both origin and target, thus makes you use the Target clicking feature).

Wiki docs for Selected,
https://wiki.roll20.net/Macros#Using_a_Selected_To...

Excellent, thanks for the responses, was just wondering if I was missing something