diff --git a/docs/rh-log.txt b/docs/rh-log.txt
index 6797680f44..a8036fd34c 100644
--- a/docs/rh-log.txt
+++ b/docs/rh-log.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 October 28, 2008  (Changes by Graf Zahl)
+- Fixed: The state parser counted one parameter too many for a varargs function.
 - Fixed: FStateExpressions could copy unresolved default parameter expressions.
   When these were resolved and changed later all copied pointers pointed to
   invalid data.
diff --git a/src/thingdef/thingdef_states.cpp b/src/thingdef/thingdef_states.cpp
index a20edd4619..82c3a44228 100644
--- a/src/thingdef/thingdef_states.cpp
+++ b/src/thingdef/thingdef_states.cpp
@@ -347,7 +347,6 @@ do_stop:
 
 						if (varargs)
 						{
-							varargcount++;
 							paramindex++;
 						}
 						else if (afd->defaultparameterindex > -1)