Mage rules say if you make an action and it isn't dodge then you don't get one. I pretty much stick by that, but not entirely. You'll get pretty bad modifiers, but if you're shooting a gun or something and still want to not take a blow as badly as you might otherwise then you can try to side-step and such. I think something I'm going to work on is reminding people they can split dice-pools. Basically, if you've made an action, but still think your character wants to try to get out of the way of something, explain how she's doing it and I'll make some kind of roll.