If by climactic you mean using an extended contest I've run four 5 hours
sessions to the point where the players are trying to escape the palace and
about 2 extended contest in it. Maybe I use extended contest too much even
if so far players enjoy the game.
This trigger my question, do other people go about the same speed, faster or
slower (about 20 hours of game time to the Banquet) as I'm still wondering
if I run to slow or too fast or about the right speed and would appreciate
some external guidelines.
Manuel