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You don't have to be standing to dodge. One of the most cinematic dodging must be rolling away from the blow.

The current rule of dodging (you are ending up prone) pretty much takes away dodging from combat, because when you have started to dodge, you pretty much are stuck in an endless loop (dodge - getting up - dodge - getting up ...). So the talent is petty much a must (and to level 2) if you want to use dodge.

One problem if you allow anyone to dodge (without being prone), it might be to good and every idiot in the world will dodge, sometimes instead of parrying and if you then give the dodging talent a bonus to dodge, parrying will be pointless.

One solution is to either give a "normal" character a penalty (-2 for example) when dodging dodging or dodge without any penalty but end up prone. The talent will remove this penalty. This way it is harder to dodge than to parry but you can at least do it without ending up in a losers loop.

Or
At least let the poor dodging fool that has to end up prone, end up prone at near distance so the attacker at least has to do something to attack again (he has to move in again).