Hey Charleei,
Not a dumb question at all! Starting with the demo game *is* the way to do it. Once you have your own character and room you can delete the demo ones.
Make sure you delete them from the PowerQuest editor (select it from the list and click the '-' at the bottom of the list). If you just delete the files, it'll leave references to them in the system and code, which might be why you got errors.
Let me know if you have any problems still.
I can make a blank template pretty easily, yeah. I'm just not sure how useful it is, to me it seems trivial to delete a couple of characters and rooms once you've got new ones set up, but it's helpful having them there before then. I should check that it's easy to delete them I guess, since maybe you have to do them in the correct order if the scripts are referencing each other
