diff --git a/.github/workflows/github_action_build_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/github_action_build_docs.yml
index f7759bf550..11b4217e53 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/github_action_build_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/github_action_build_docs.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python-version: [3.7]
-        TESTING_DB: ['sqlite3']
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2 
@@ -29,19 +28,31 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
        
-      - name: Install package dependencies
+      - name: Install doc-building dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           cd docs/
           make install
 
+      # fail early here
       - name: Quick-test docs (no autodocs)
+        continue-on-error: true
         run: |
           cd docs/
           make quick 
 
+      # full game dir needed for mv-local
+      - name: Set up evennia game dir
+        run: |
+          pip install -e .
+          cd ..
+          evennia --init gamedir
+          cd gamedir
+          evennia migrate
+
       - name: Deploy docs (only from master/develop branch)
         if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/develop' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'}}
         run: |
-          cd docs/
+          cd docs
+          make mv-local
           echo "Would deploy here!"
diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 1433a6a6ec..448f5a7a20 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ pdf:
 	@echo "To see result, open evennia/docs/build/latex/evennia.pdf in a PDF reader."
 
 quick:
-	make _check-env
 	make _quick-html-build $(FILES)
 	@echo ""
 	@echo "Documentation built (single version, no autodocs)."
diff --git a/docs/source/index.md b/docs/source/index.md
index 69d53b54b2..263e241e76 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.md
+++ b/docs/source/index.md
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 # VERSION WARNING
 
 > This is the experimental static v0.9 documentation of Evennia, _automatically_ generated from the