You get to be about as strong as Uruyu if not one or maybe two arcs stronger than he is. Preferably our characters won't be that strong individually. Average spiritual awareness, high or low or just standard awareness, is the max I'm allowing at the start but we will get stronger. This way we don't just blow through mooks like tissue paper at the start of the roleplay. 

In regards to weapons I'll give you a fair compromise. You can use a sword or whatever other weapon you prefer at the expense of not being able to use arrows. Just seems like a fair trade off to me as opposed to my fullbringer who struggles to use his energy slash ability on his sword and is more or less a tank styled swordsman. The difference between the two being that Quincy are in the vast majority only arrow shooters, or at least that's what I am reading on the wiki, and fullbringers can have secondary abilities on their fullbring weapon (My guy is using a palette swapped version of Ginjo's weapon with the ability to sling energy slashes as opposed to explosive blasts to make it slightly different than Ginjo)