Sacrosanct
Legend
For background music, the old video games that came on CD Roms work great because you can easily find the audio files. Things like heroes of might and magic, mechwarrior, and Witcher.
I swear if I thought you really hated all the things you poke fun at on here, I’d think you just hate DnD!I mean, on the one hand, awesome job getting your kid so involved! That's great! Also a great age for RPGing.
On the other hand, friends don't let friends bard.
As for music actually during play, that's a complete deal breaker for me - I have ADHD and find it too distracting. If a group insist on playing music during games then I will not be part of that group. And that's not negotiable.
We play in a pub, where they sometimes have random music playing. D&D to the strains of Abba's Dancing Queen can be quite surreal.
Bards are what happen when someone takes the sanctimony and smugness of the Paladin and inverts it into pure silliness.
One day, I can hope that all the Paladins and Bards rush toward each other, and like matter and anti-matter, cancel each other out in an explosion of holy avenger and lute confetti.