Myth Adventures Series

MythAdventures is the collective name for a series of humorous fantasy novels written by Robert Lynn Asprin that are popular for their whimsical nature, myriad characters, and liberal use of puns. Each novel's title makes a pun on the similarity between the word "myth" and either the prefix "mis-" or the word "miss", with the exception of the first, which puns on the phrase "Another fine mess" (which was, incidentally, almost the novel's title due to a misunderstanding with book's publisher).

The stories mostly revolve around the adventures of a few central characters:

• Skeeve, a youngish journeyman magician from the backwater dimension of Klah.
• Aahz, a green, scaly "demon" (short for "dimension traveler") from the dimension of Perv, a world known for its foul-tempered reptilian humanoid inhabitants . Aahz (short for Aahzmandius) takes Skeeve on as his apprentice, despite having lost his powers through a prank pulled by Skeeve's now-deceased mentor, Garkin, at the beginning of the first novel. Later on, he and Skeeve dissolve their mentor/apprentice relationship and become partners in a magician-for-hire enterprise called M.Y.T.H. Inc.
• Gleep, a baby dragon with a one-word eponymous vocabulary, and Skeeve's excitable pet.
• Massha, a magician of truly monumental girth with bright orange hair, a gaudy fashion sense and a thorough knowledge of magical items, who eventually apprentices herself to Skeeve.
• Guido and Nunzio, a pair of hulking and highly capable bodyguards attached to Skeeve as a favor from the interdimensional Mafia's light-in-the-loafers Fairy Godfather, Don Bruce. Nunzio seldom talks, while Guido speaks in a Runyonesque dialect, which is explained as being an aftereffect of having been in a production of Guys and Dolls. Both are much more intelligent than their stereotype suggests.
• Chumley, an enormous but quite gentle and erudite Troll whose professional persona is a monosyllabic muscle-for-hire called Big Crunch.
• Tananda, a.k.a. Tanda, a professional assassin and Chumley's nymphish Trollop sister.
• Bunny, Don Bruce's beautiful niece and Skeeve's assigned moll; she is an accomplished accountant and is in love with Skeeve (though he does not know it).
• Vic a.k.a. Victor - a vampire with an expertise in nightclubs that joined Skeeve and Co.
• The Kid a.k.a. the Sen Sen Ante Kid-The greatest Dragon Poker player of all time - came under Skeeve's employ after Skeeve beat him at Dragon Poker.

There are 12 novels in the original series and 5 more in a second set of books with the same characters.