diff --git a/.github/workflows/github_action_build_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/github_action_build_docs.yml
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+# This github-Evennia workflow will build the docs.
+
+name: documentation
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master, develop ]
+    paths:
+      - 'docs/**'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master, develop ]
+    paths:
+      - 'docs/**'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [3.7]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Install doc-building dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          cd docs/
+          make install
+
+      # fail early here, run quickstrict with aborts also on warnings
+      - name: Quick-test docs (no autodocs)
+        run: |
+          cd docs/
+          make quickstrict
+
+      # 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: |
+          git config --global user.email "docbuilder@evennia.com"
+          git config --global user.name "Doc builder mechanism"
+          cd docs
+          make mv-local
+          echo "Would deploy here!"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/github_action_test_suite.yml b/.github/workflows/github_action_test_suite.yml
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+# This Evennia workflow will install Python dependencies, run tests with a variety of Python versions
+# For more information see: https://help.github.com/actions/language-and-framework-guides/using-python-with-github-actions
+
+name: test-suite
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master, develop ]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'docs/**'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master, develop ]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8]
+        TESTING_DB: ['sqlite3', 'postgresql', 'mysql']
+
+    steps:
+
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+    - name: Set up PostgreSQL server
+      uses: harmon758/postgresql-action@v1
+      if: ${{ matrix.TESTING_DB == 'postgresql' }}
+      with:
+        postgresql version: '10.7'
+        postgresql db: 'evennia'
+        postgresql user: 'evennia'
+        postgresql password: 'password'
+    - name: Set up MySQL server
+      uses: mirromutth/mysql-action@v1.1
+      if: ${{ matrix.TESTING_DB == 'mysql'}}
+      with:
+        host port: 3306
+        character set server: 'utf8mb4'
+        collation server: 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci'
+        mysql database: 'evennia'
+        mysql user: 'evennia'
+        mysql password: 'password'
+
+    # wait for db to activage, get logs from their start
+    - name: Wait / sleep
+      uses: jakejarvis/wait-action@v0.1.0
+      if: ${{ matrix.TESTING_DB == 'postgresql' || matrix.TESTING_DB == 'mysql' }}
+      with:
+        time: '10s'
+    - name: Database container logs
+      uses: jwalton/gh-docker-logs@v1.0.0
+    - name: Check running containers
+      run: docker ps -a
+
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+    - name: Install package dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install wheel
+        pip install psycopg2-binary
+        pip install mysqlclient
+        pip install coveralls
+        pip install codacy-coverage
+        pip install -e .
+
+    - name: Install extra dependencies  # Only develop branch right now
+      if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/develop' }}
+      run: pip install -r requirements_extra.txt
+
+    - name: Initialize evennia
+      run: |
+        evennia --init testing_mygame
+        cp .github/workflows/${{ matrix.TESTING_DB }}_settings.py testing_mygame/server/conf/settings.py
+        cd testing_mygame
+        evennia migrate
+        evennia collectstatic --noinput
+
+    - name: Run test suite
+      run: |
+        cd testing_mygame
+        coverage run --source=../evennia --omit=*/migrations/*,*/urls.py,*/test*.py,*.sh,*.txt,*.md,*.pyc,*.service ../bin/unix/evennia test --settings=settings --keepdb evennia
+        coverage xml
+
+    # we only want to run coverall/codacy once, so we only do it for one of the matrix combinations
+    # it's also not critical if pushing to either service fails (happens for PRs since env is not
+    # available outside of the evennia org)
+    - name: Send data to Coveralls
+      if: ${{ matrix.TESTING_DB == 'sqlite3' && matrix.python-version == 3.7 }}
+      continue-on-error: true
+      env:
+          COVERALLS_REPO_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.COVERALLS_REPO_TOKEN }}
+      run: |
+        cd testing_mygame
+        coveralls
+
+    - name: Send data to Codacy
+      if: ${{ matrix.TESTING_DB == 'sqlite3' && matrix.python-version == 3.7 }}
+      continue-on-error: true
+      uses: codacy/codacy-coverage-reporter-action@master
+      with:
+        project-token: ${{ secrets.CODACY_PROJECT_TOKEN }}
+        coverage-reports: ./testing_mygame/coverage.xml